Film highlights work of missionaries

Charlie Bird saw many remarkable things in his 40 years in RTÉ but nothing could have prepared him for meeting the people who live in a graveyard.

Some 500 destitute families — around 2,000 adults and children — live among the dead in one of the largest cemeteries in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, where they sleep on graves, shelter between tombstones, and cook on the surrounds.

Two Columban nuns, supported by the Columban Sisters in Ireland, run a feeding programme for the children there and a small drop-in centre where they can wash, play, and learn.