About 200 families call Cavite City Cemetery home and most depend on the neighboring city dump to scrape out livelihoods. World Vision helped relocate many of the poverty stricken families to the more pristine countryside. But two years later, without jobs, most returned to the shanty town built among the graves.  About 200 families exchange free rent for keeping the tombs clean. Daily they hunt for recyclable bottles, plastic, metal and the occasional treasure that will help provide their families food and clothing.  

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