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Fire Marshal Training: Different types of fire extinguishers (à Kenya Redcross HQ)
Photos reveal packed Quezon City Jail in the Philippines
Mario Dimaculangan shares a toilet with 130 other inmates in one of the Philippines’ most overcrowded jails, and conditions are getting worse as police wage an unprecedented war on crime.
Security forces have killed hundreds of people and detained thousands more in just one month as they have followed the orders of President Rodrigo Duterte, who has said the top priority at the start of his six-year term is to eliminate drugs in society.
Those detained appear doomed for lengthy stints in an underfunded and overwhelmed penal system, like in the Quezon City Jail where Dimaculangan has wallowed for 14 years while his trial over murder and robbery charges has dragged on.
“Many go crazy. They cannot think straight. It’s so crowded. Just the slightest of movements and you bump into something or someone,” Dimaculangan told AFP in one of the jail’s packed hallways, which reeked of sweat.
There are 3,800 inmates at the jail, which was built six decades ago to house 800, and they engage in a relentless contest for space.
Men take turns to sleep on the cracked cement floor of an open-air basketball court, the steps of staircases, underneath beds and hammocks made out of old blankets. Even then, bodies are packed like sardines in a can, with inmates unable to fully stretch out.
When it rains, the conditions are even worse as inmates cannot sleep on the basketball court, which is surrounded by the cells in decaying concrete buildings up to four stories high.
The cash-strapped national government has a daily budget of just 50 pesos ($1.10) for food and five pesos (11 cents) for medicine per inmate, although with the bulk buying of supplies, Quezon City Jail detainees have a sustainable diet of soup, vegetables and meat.
Pails of water are used to flush the scarce toilets, with the stench compounded by the rotting garbage in a nearby canal. (Read more by Ayee Macaraig/AFP)
(Photographs by Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)
See more images from the jail on Yahoo News.
#Repost @robinsharma ・・・ When life tries to tear you down, the opportunity is to build you up.
#Repost @robinsharma ・・・ Your #DailyKickstart: What makes a master a master is that they never think they're masters. Always be growing.
Another jiko to keep warm (à Mummydada's)
#Repost @desiringgod ・・・ "'By the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored harder than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.' (1 Corinthians 15:10) Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon. This is plain, for example, in 1 Corinthians 15:10. Paul describes grace as the enabling power of his work. It is not simply the pardon of his sins, it is the power to press on in obedience. Therefore the effort we make to obey God is not an effort done in our own strength, but 'in the strength which God supplies, that in everything God may get the glory' (1 Peter 4:11). It is the obedience of faith. Paul confirms this in 2 Thessalonians 1:11–12 by calling our acts of goodness 'works of faith' and by saying that the glory this brings to Jesus is 'according to the grace of God' because it happens 'by [his] power': 'To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his call, and may fulfill every good resolve and work of faith by [his] power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.' The obedience that gives God pleasure is produced by the power of God’s grace through faith. The same dynamic is at work at every stage of the Christian life. The power of God’s grace that saves through faith (Ephesians 2:8) is the same power of God’s grace that sanctifies through faith." Read more at desiringGod.org // Link in profile.
Staying warm: cold Nairobi nights (à Mummydada's)
A first time for everything: quail eggs
#Repost @realtalkkim ・・・ Forgiving someone may cost you your pride, but not forgiving them will cost you your freedom. #real talk #RealTalkKim #freedom #GOD #hope #Healing #life #RejectionIsGodsProtection
#Repost @robinsharma ・・・ Education is inoculation to disruption. As you learn more you can achieve more.
#Repost @forbes ・・・ Effective communication is the key to success. #MondayMotivation
Talk About Christ par Evans E-Major Onyango sur #SoundCloud
#Repost @robinsharma ・・・ Your #DailyKickstart: Just because you couldn't do something yesterday doesn't mean you can't achieve it today. You're one day stronger today!
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ZeHMapSkA)
#Repost @lisabevere ・・・ The healing of a nation begins when its people start lifting prayers instead of stones. God, search our hearts and remove anything that doesn’t align with Your heart. #HealOurLand “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and HEAL THEIR LAND.” —2 Chronicles 7:14 NKJV
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Life's simple pleasures