Historian Carlos Celdran explains how the Tondo slum came into existence as the rebel district of Manila.





As a birth attendant advocating for family planning, Remy is on the frontline of Tondo’s battle with overcrowding.

Find local broadcast times for Al Jazeera’s series about Tondo, a settlement in Manila.

Fourteen-year-old Reshmi is boxing her way out of the red light district where she was raised.
![Reshmi grew up in Kalighat, which is flooded almost daily by the nearby Adi Ganga Canal [Karen Dias]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014910125818434734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C152&quality=80)
Time has stood still for the residents of the Mae La refugee camp decades after they fled their homes in Myanmar.
![Saw Glads Htoo lives in the Mae La refugee camp on the Thailand-Myanmar border [Vincenzo Floramo/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20149994421481734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C152&quality=80)
They dream of a permanent home in Europe but many migrants end up stranded in informal refugee settlements.
![Fathima Haj Abdi lives in the the Via Slataper slum in Florence [Federico Scoppa/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20149992932944734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C152&quality=80)
The baale of Makoko is challenging negative stereotypes of Lagos’ economically productive overwater settlement.
![Emmanuel Shemede is chief of Makoko, an overwater settlement in Lagos [Ruth McDowall/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20149991549908734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C152&quality=80)
Can the impoverished residents of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building save it from the bulldozers?
![Cambodia's White Building survived a civil war, US bombs and the Khmer Rouge, but can it and its residents survive an even bigger threat - the developers? [Vincenzo Floramo / Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014827114017807734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C152&quality=80)
A young entrepreneur uses the skills he acquired as a scavenger to deliver hope and opportunity to his neighbours.
![Neftaly Malatjie runs a youth organisation in Diepsloot township, South Africa [Cornel van Heerden/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20149995341188734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C152&quality=80)
A gang member from the world’s largest slum explains why his real battle is against everyday discrimination.
![El Guero Loco left school when he was just 12 years old [Misael Valtierra/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20149913594032734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C152&quality=80)
Residents of a Bedouin village encircled by chemical factories and a waste facility face a ticking health time bomb.
![Naama and Abed live in the Bedouin village of Wadi al-Na’am in the Negev Desert [Kobi Wolf/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20149912435315734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C152&quality=80)