Tondo: The space in between
Historian Carlos Celdran explains how the Tondo slum came into existence as the rebel district of Manila.
The Slum
About the show
The UN predicts that by 2050, one in three people will live in a slum. But what determines where you live and how does your environment shape your health, hopes and prospects? In a special season of coverage, Al Jazeera explores our relationships with the places we call home. The six-part documentary series The Slum introduces the residents of Tondo – the most densely populated and least developed part of Manila – as they strive for success against the odds.
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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]](/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]](/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]](/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]](/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]](/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]](/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]](/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]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20149912435315734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C152&quality=80)