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Richard (wife Catherine) and two children, and Catherine's parents inhabit the same mausoleum. Richard earns roughly 700 PHP daily. "Here now I’m driving again, trying to go through life, through traffic.There's a saying, one foot is on the grave and one foot is on top of the grave, so you’ll never know when the lord is going to take you. Because if you make one mistake, for sure you’re done. With the phaseout they’re going to remove our livelihood. Why? Actually, we’re helping people, we bring our passengers to where they need to be. They’re only phasing out the jeepneys to make money, but what about us poor? Where are we going to get the money we need to buy food? They’ll ask you to pay for the E-Jeep, a pricetag of 200'000 PHP downpayment, and then you have to pay off monthly to the government until the 1'000'000 PHP are covered. Where can we get that one million PHP? We are not rich, we’re just poor drivers. Most of us are not even educated. When you hold the steering wheel, you don’t know what much you’ll earn. For sure, it’s only coins."

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Philippines - Jeepney - The Pinoy's (P)ride, Philippines - Manila North Cemetery
Richard (wife Catherine) and two children, and Catherine's parents inhabit the same mausoleum. Richard earns roughly 700 PHP daily. "Here now I’m driving again, trying to go through life, through traffic.There's a saying, one foot is on the grave and one foot is on top of the grave, so you’ll never know when the lord is going to take you. Because if you make one mistake, for sure you’re done. With the phaseout they’re going to remove our livelihood. Why? Actually, we’re helping people, we bring our passengers to where they need to be. They’re only phasing out the jeepneys to make money, but what about us poor? Where are we going to get the money we need to buy food? They’ll ask you to pay for the E-Jeep, a pricetag of 200'000 PHP downpayment, and then you have to pay off monthly to the government until the 1'000'000 PHP are covered. Where can we get that one million PHP? We are not rich, we’re just poor drivers. Most of us are not even educated. When you hold the steering wheel, you don’t know what much you’ll earn. For sure, it’s only coins."