‘We need to eat’: Philippine boy’s struggle to feed his family

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Wed, 2019-03-20 09:46

MANILA: Reymark Cavesirano, 13, leaves before dawn each weekend day on a perilous trip out into Manila Bay to make enough to feed his family, one of millions of deeply poor Filipinos who face a daily struggle for survival.
Aboard a raft pieced together from discarded wood and sheets of styrofoam, he uses his bare hands as paddles for the hour-long journey to the fishing boats where he works.
About one in five of the Philippines’ 106 million people live in extreme poverty, getting by on less than $2 per day.

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