Street life: Manila's homeless find shelter in pushcarts

By Agence France-Presse

Dec 03, 2022 11:02 pm

LIKE thousands of homeless people in the Philippine capital Manila, Maricel Abawag and her son used to sleep on flattened cardboard boxes laid out on footpaths. Then they got a pushcart.

Pushcarts, known as karitons, are a common sight in the city of more than 13 million people.

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