School children use an inflated tire tube to cross a river to go to a public school in Rizal province east of Manila, Philippines, on Oct. 12, 2012.

Residents living in a squatters area wait for a free meal consisting of rice, chicken and vegetables given on a daily basis by a South Korean missionary in Tondo, Manila, Sept. 21, 2012.

Mothers stay with their babies in tandem beds at a ward often occupied by around 300 mothers at one time, in Jose Fabella maternity hospital in Manila, Sept. 12.

Health workers show the proper use of a condom during a family planning session held in the Likhaan center, an NGO clinic in Tondo, Manila, Aug. 6. The women, who brought along their children, reacted enthusiastically to the session. Attendees are offered free contraception, such as pills or condoms.

Women hold their babies while waiting for a free pediatric check-up at a local government health center in Manila, Aug. 6. About 50 people come through each day to have their babies checked for common illnesses like diarrhea and colds.

Some of the 14 Cabiya-an siblings sleep side by side in a cramped one bedroom shanty in Manila, Sept. 12. The household's daily income is $6 U.S.

A museum employee displays some of the shoes of former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, next to her portrait at the shoe museum in Manila on Wednesday.

A volunteer cleans shoes of former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos on display on Wednesday.

Policemen hold residents after a demolition operation turned violent in Manila, Philippines, Sept. 24.

Residents throw stones and beer bottles during a demoliton operation to clear a settlers area in Makati City on Sept. 24.

Residents arm themselves with bottles and other objects to be thrown at police during a demolition operation in Makati City on Sept. 24.

Demolition crews dismantle shanties in the Makati financial district of Manila on Sept. 24.

An illegal settler cries with her husband as they are detained by a member of the SWAT police team.

Residents battle with police during the demolition of their shanties.

Philippine National Police officers and SWAT team members try to arrest resisting informal settlers during the demolition of their shanty in Taguig city, Sept. 20, east of Manila, Philippines.

Police seek cover behind their shields during a clash with residents of a squatters area in Taguig, Metro Manila Sept. 20.

Police detain a resident during a protest in a squatters area in Taguig, Metro Manila Sept. 20.

Filipino workers remove the ropes and straps tied around the carcass of the a sperm whale on the flatbed of a 16 wheeler trailer truck during its burial. The whale was buried at the fish cemetery of the Zamboanga State College of Marine Science and Technology in Zamboanga City, southern Philippines, Sept. 19. The dead giant sea mammal was spotted, already dead, floating near an island off the coast of Zamboanga City.

Philippine Coast Guard personnel look at the floating carcass of a 52 foot-long sperm whale in the wharf of Zamboanga City, southern Philippines, on Sept. 19.

Workers remove ropes from the carcass of a 52-foot-long sperm whale after it was towed from the sea to the pier of Zamboanga City, on the southern island of Mindanao on Sept. 19. The dead giant mammal was spotted by the coast guard on Sept. 19, floating near Sacol island off the coast of Zamboanga City. Environmental officials believe the whale had been sick and died several days ago, as quoted by press reports.

A resident stands atop of his damaged house after a fire that razed some hundreds of houses in an early morning fire in Quezon City, Manila in the Philippines, Sept. 19. At least one person died and some 800 families were left homeless.

A boy sits in the window of a home damaged by fire that razed hundreds of houses in a dawn blaze in Quezon City, Manila, Sept.19.

John Harris stands next to his family: wife Remedios (who holds Joshua, 3), Jamie, 11, John, 16, and Joyce, 8, at the small space where they live under a bridge in Manila, Philippines on August 21, 2012 . John is a construction worker making 250 pesos ($6) a day. The family live in a small space under a bridge alongside many other impoverished families.

Irish Romes, 19, holds her 2-week-old baby Jay at the place where she lives with her family next to a highway in the slums of Binondo, Manila on August 21, 2012.

A man stands next to the door of his room under a bridge in Manila on August 21, 2012. Families cram into small rooms under a bridge so they can live for free.

A man washes clothes as children look out from the small room under a bridge within which they live on August 22, 2012 in Manila.

A woman holds her daughter in their makeshift shack in the Binondo slums of Manila, which they rent for 1,000 pesos ($24) a month.

Filipino miners push a cart containing sacks of mineral muck ore in the gold mining town of Diwalwal on Wednesday.

Filipino miners use water to get gold dust from diced muck ore.

A view of houses in the gold mining town of Diwalwal in Compostela Valley, southern Philippines.

Mothers and their newborns share space on a bed after giving birth in the maternity ward at the government-run Jose Fabella maternity hospital in Manila, Philippines.

A mother is in pain while her newborn baby rests on her chest as she gets surgically sutured after giving birth in a delivery room at the Jose Fabella Hospital.

A mother is seen on the operation table next to her new baby moments after a Caesarean operation.

Mothers breast feed their babies in a special room at the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital.

Women light candles after a mass for Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Robredo at the Saint Peter's Church in Manila on Aug. 21. The Philippines was in mourning after divers recovered the body of one of its most influential politicians, who died when a plane carrying him and three others crashed into the sea.

Police and other local government officials carry the remains of Interior Minister Jesse Robredo from a military plane at the Naga Airport, Camarines Sur province, eastern Philippines, Aug. 21.

Filipinos attend a mass for Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, at the Saint Peter's Church in Manila on Aug. 21.

Women light candles after a mass for Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Robredo at the Saint Peter's Church in Manila on Aug. 21.

The casket of Nelida Gregorio, 89, who died of a heart attack gets lifted up into a gravesite in a flooded cemetery next to the swollen Pampanga River August 15, 2012 in Bulacan, Philippines. A tropical storm hit the Northern Luzon bringing days of wet weather to a region still recovering from massive flooding. According to the Office of Civil Defense the floods have left at least 96 people dead with the flooding effecting up to 2.68 million people, including more than 440,000 fleeing to evacuation centers, in Manila and surrounding provinces.

Family and friends of Nelida Gregorio, 89, who died of a heart attack, mourn her death during a funeral service as they stand in knee deep water in a flooded cemetery next to the swollen Pampanga River on August 15 in Bulacan, Philippines. A tropical storm hit the Northern Luzon bringing days of wet weather to a region still recovering from massive flooding. According to the Office of Civil Defense the floods have left at least 96 people dead with the flooding effecting up to 2.68 million people, including more than 440,000 fleeing to evacuation centers, in Manila and surrounding provinces.