A small child, her face covered with charcoal carries a stick she uses to carry small bags of charcoal in Manila's slums, Manila, Philippines, 25 December, 2017.

Despite being banned in many districts, illegal charcoal harvesting continues secretly within many of Manila’s outer suburban slums.
Just a few kilometres from Manila’s city centre the poorest of the slum families’ risk their lives to make just a few pesos in the illegal charcoal making business in appalling conditions.