{"id":31929,"date":"2012-04-12T15:46:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_from_dumpsite_to_department_stores_a_rags-to-riches_dream_in_manila\/"},"modified":"2012-04-12T15:46:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:46:55","slug":"cns_from_dumpsite_to_department_stores_a_rags-to-riches_dream_in_manila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31929","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) From dumpsite to department stores, a rags-to-riches dream in Manila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The evolution of the rags to riches started five years ago with a vision held by a Jesuit seminarian who was assigned to a parish at the Payatas dumpsite, northeast of Manila; about 60,000 people live around the dump&#8217;s fringe. Father Xavier Alpasa said he saw exploitation flourishing as he ministered in this deeply impoverished community.<\/p>\n<p>Women were buying dumpsite scraps that scavengers picked and sewing them into rugs to be sold commercially.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Middlemen were coming in and buying the rugs at 9 pesos and selling them to department stores for 35 pesos,&#8221; Father Alpasa said. &#8220;Then I was asking, &#8216;Where did all the profit go? Why is it all going to the middlemen? How come the women would only get 1 peso as a profit?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1201470.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evolution of the rags to riches started five years ago with a vision held by a Jesuit seminarian who was assigned to a parish at the Payatas dumpsite, northeast of Manila; about 60,000 people live around the dump&#8217;s fringe.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31929\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,201,154,353,88,108,364,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-other-churches","category-philippines","category-poverty","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}