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On Roxas Boulevard in Manila, Philippines, homeless people live on the street next to vendors.

Homeless children play with an umbrella, while their parents wait for a free consultation with doctors in Cebu City, Philippines. Homeless people live in the tombs at the Chinese cemetery and get free medical treatment once a week provided by the German Doctors and Filipino volunteers.

Many of the over 400 residents that live in here don't have their own room. Instead they use curtains as walls.

Dineo Mokgwetsi is a single mother. Like many others here, she doesn't have a job, and her opportunities are very limited. She cannot even afford to send her 5 year old daughter Dineo to school.

Some of the homeless children in Moth Building.

Busi bathing her children in one of the shower booths in the building. There is only cold water, and many of the toilets in the rooms don't work, creating unsanitary conditions and smelling from human feces.

Moth children play on the balcony like skipping rope and singing songs. One of the songs says "The cockroach is in my house, the cockroach is in my house".

Butle Mohekse watches over a friend's child in the building. All of the women take care of the others children and make sure they are safe.

Trophies displayed in someone's space inside the Moth building.

Even though the situation and environment is bad, the children is taken care of as much as possible. Mothers make sure the children are well fed and care for them, hoping they will have a better life when they grow up.

Ntokozo smoking a cigarette and trying to keep his head straight. In the background, two of his friends are passed out. The weekends in Moth Building is filled with heavy drinking and music from Friday morning until Monday.

A resident in the building is ironing her clothes after washing them. She does it once a week, just to make sure she has some routine in her daily life.

The place is very crowded, and there is not much room and space for all. Some of the residents sleep in bunkbeds, others on old mattresses, like Rianda Ethel.

Magdalena Gadende wants to be a model and a dancer when she grows up.

This man lives in the basement in the building. He has no electricity, like many others down there.

A view from inside the Moth Building in Johannesburg.

Itumeleng is one of the many children in the building. The future for the children here is very limited, without any money it is hard for them to even attend school.

The earthquake, measuring 7.8 Richter, that hit Nepal on Saturday, April 25th, left behind death and destruction. The capital Katmandu was heavily damaged, leaving temples, stores and buildings reduced to rubble.

Earthquake survivors pass by collapsed buildings in Kathmandu.

Three earthquake survivors (a women, man and child) sit amidst the rubble.

Neighborhood residents sleep, wash, and cook behind the buddhist Stupa.
Every square, yard and open space in Kathmandu is now a camp for survivors who lost their homes in the earthquake.

A man walks through Gangalal Marg, a busy path that connects the tourist area of Thamel with Basantapur and Durbar Square.

Rubble and garbage from the earthquake litter the streets of Kathmandu.

Rubble from Durbar Square's temples.
Policemen remove dangerous pieces of the Maju Dega Temple's ruins.

Locals help salvage goods from a building deemed unsafe after an electrical fire. Power infrastructure was significantly damaged by the earthquake and locals now struggle to find electricity.

The rubble of Durbar Square's temples.

Locals walk through Kathmandu's ruins.

Locals collect souvenir bricks from Darahara tower's pieces.

Locals walk through Kathmandu's ruins.

The remains of the UNESCO-listed Dharahara Tower in Kathmandu.
It is unclear how many people were killed in the tower, one of the city's premier attractions for both locals and tourists.

The remains of the UNESCO-listed Dharahara Tower in Kathmandu.
It is unclear how many people were killed in the tower, one of the city's premier attractions for both locals and tourists.

Every square, yard and open space in Kathmandu is now a camp for survivors who lost their homes in the earthquake.

Rubble and debris on street corner is Kathmandu.

Trucks collect debris and rubble from Durbar Square's temples. Many of the most important buildings and temples in Kathmandu were destroyed by the earthquake.

The entrance of Kakeshwar temple in Durbar Square ruined by the earthquake.

An old woman watches the Taleju Temple in Durbar Square, one of the few temples that did not collapsed during the earthquake.

A relief tent in Indra Chowk.
Every square, yard and open space in Kathmandu is now a camp for survivors who lost their homes in the earthquake.

A man in a street in Kathmandu.

Every square, yard and open space in Kathmandu is now a camp for survivors who lost their homes in the earthquake.

A woman stands behind a ruined building in Thamel, where shops, hotels and temples collapsed during the earthquake.