When your home is a cemetery in the Philippines

Three-year-old Maria Christina and her dolls call Bagbagcemetery home. The cemetery sitsin Quezon City, in thenortheastern part of Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

Itis zoned as a cemeterybut it's right in the middle of a residential neighbourhood. Maria Christina comes from a poor familyand sleepsand eats in a tent-like structure beside colourful walls filled with the dead.

Everyday items for sale.

Vendors who set up shop inside the cemetery selleveryday amenities.

Cool treats for the kids.

There is even an ice cream vendor for the children, their families and visitors.

Coffins near the washrooms.

Bagbagcemetery has its own men's and women's washrooms surrounded by the coffins of the dead.

A cemetery 'hotel.'

Only residents ofQuezonCity may be buried here and many of them are desperately poor. Remains of an estimated 110,000 people have been placed in the walls of the Bagbag cemetery, which local residents call a cemetery "hotel."

It's becoming a popular place.

There has been a notable increase in intermentsin Bagbag, with staff casually saying that it's because there are so many victims of President Rodrigo Duterte's"'war on drugs."There is no official datatracking those numbers.

Rituals before the burial.

On the day of a burial, acasket slidesinto the cinder block and concrete vertical slots. There are many rituals performed around the casket before it's slotted in.

Not necessarily the final resting place.

There is an interment fee of $107 plus a registration fee of $44, which covers a five-year period. After that, extensions can be purchased, or more likely, the bones are retrieved and transferred to a bone vault elsewhere in the cemetery.

Goats help with the garbage.

The cemetery was one of the most pollutedin all of Manila beforegarbage trucks hauled loads of debris awaylate last year. The goats that roam freely are probably some help on that front.

Keeping a watchful eye.

A faded angel statuewatches over the dead.

Growing up at Bagbag.

Angelika, a 10-year-old resident of Bagbag, is one of those making her way in lifein a place intended for the dead.

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