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“When you talk about healing spaces, it’s also about the emotional, psychological space,” Inez Feria, founder and director of NoBox Philippines, told Philstar.com in an interview.
Before he was gunned down, Ronnie Montoya tried to build a house. Like most of the people in the Manila suburb of Tondo, he had no money. The family had a shed – a tiny foothold in the fetid labyrinth of the slums. With materials scrounged from building sites and rubbish dumps, he added two storeys – the stairways between them crooked and treacherous, composed of a dozen different kinds of scrap timber. The ceilings were so low that the occupants had to sit or lie down.