Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Living in a Cemetery

Family life in a Filipino cemetery - LINK

Watching television in a Manila Cemetery - LINK

Four-year-old Mahmoud does his homework atop a grave in the al-Sheikh Shaban cemetery. Photo credit: Eman Mohammed - LINK

It is estimated that thousands of families live in poverty in the cemeteries of Cairo. LINK

This family lives in a shanty cobbled together on top of a row of tombstones in a public cemetery. The home is two 6 x 8-foot rooms with rotting wood floors barely able to hold a person's weight. The ceiling is made from rusted tin pieces. Each hole in the tin is stuffed with tinfoil to keep out frequent downpours. By ComapssionInternational on Flickr

Here in the middle of Cairo resides the inhabitants of the graveyards. Photo credit: Ali Garboussi - LINK

Beds made up in a crypt in Egypt - Photo credit: Ali Garboussi - LINK

An Afghan man sleeps on a grave at a cemetery in Kabul - LINK

Several thousand homeless people in Manila have made graveyards their permanent homes. The biggest graveyard of the Filipino capital, North Cemetery, is now like a small village in itself with a population of 10,000. Photo credit: Rudi Roels. - LINK

Filipinos living in two cemeteries in Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines - LINK

Filipinos living in two cemeteries in Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines - LINK

Children playing in Egypt's City of the Dead. LINK

This cemetery in the heart of Pasay in Manila is the resting place for over 10,000 deceased people - and some living ones. About ten cemetery caretakers and their families live in the graveyard, in terribly poor conditions. But the residents feel safer among the graves than living on the outside in a neighborhood known for drugs and violence. Photo credit: Gerhard Jörén - LINK

A resident gets a haircut in front of "apartment-style" tombs inside the Manila North Cemetery. Photo credit: REUTERS/John Javellana - LINK

Egyptian Zaki Saad, 80, stands in a grave where he and his family live.  Photo credit: Khalil Hamra - LINK

Egyptian Zaki Saad, 80, left, and his two daughters sit next to the door of a grave, which is also where they live, in a necropolis called the City of the Dead. Photo credit: Khalil Hamra - LINK

A boy plays next to tombs in a room where his family lives in a necropolis called the City of the Dead. Photo credit: Khalil Hamra - LINK

Afaf Jilu in her family’s kitchen within the family's crypt. Photo credit: Eman Mohammed - LINK

More on Manila's Cemetery Dwellers here

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