Philippines - Manila North Cemetery Philippines - Jeepney - The Pinoy's (P)ride
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Funeral Jeepney driver in Manila. He is driving the mourners from where they hire him to either Manila North Cemetery or Passay City Cemetery. Richard is living inside Manila North Cemetery, where some 6000 others have made the burial site a permanent home because they can't afford rent elsewhere. He usually wakes up at 4:30 and leaves the cemetery immediately in search for passengers on the Route Santa Cruz - Taft Avenue. He mostly sleeps outside on the tomb of his father.
Richard has two young children and drives the jeepney of his father in law who bought it some 20 years ago. Nowadays many jeepneys aren't privately owned any longer. More often the drivers rent the jeepney from a corporative for some 800 PHP a day. They eventually make some 2500 PHP a day but spend 800 for diesel and pay the owner so to have a third (roughly 8-900 PHP) left per day. For most it remains day-to-day survival. Richard had a flat tire the other day, saying that he didn't earn any money that day.
If he would switch to an electric jeepney if the old ones will be phased out? "No, this is our legacy, I won't participate, they're still good enough". A "funeral jeepney" delivers the mourners to the funeral
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- Claudio Sieber
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