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Ulingan in Tondo (Part 3): the charcoal children
In one of the makeshift tent houses in Ulingan, a charred wooden statue of Jesus Christ stands in a grimy corner—the Lord’s hands and arms are “amputated” as if disabling the Savior from offering comfort and hope. The statue was one of the scrap woods gathered by a scavenger in the dump site and destined to the fires of Ulingan to turn into good charcoal. But the scavenger thought better of it …

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