
Children of Ulingan line up to receive their free weekly meal from non profit group Project Pearl, that seeks to help impoverished children in the aquatter charcoal community of Ulingan, a squatter community in the North Harbour of Manila, where families work as Ulingeros, or charcoal workers. Many of the workers in Ulingan are small children. Some are teenagers and a few were even as young as six or seven, unable to attend school because of poverty.