Banting was released after
serving 18 months in prison.
She now lives in this
tenement near Smokey Mountain,
the former city dump in
Tondo, Manila,
with Pau and her partner,
Julius, and his family.
She hopes to marry Julius
and
start a family with him.
Her mother is now serving
time in prison
on drugs charges
Photograph: James Whitlow
Delano
Funded by the Pulitzer Center
on Crisis Reporting
Revisiting the widows of
Duterte’s deadly ‘war on drugs’ – in pictures
In 2017,
James Whitlow Delano visited
Manila’s slums
to photograph young women and girls
who lost partners to the
former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte’s
brutal campaign against
suspected drug dealers.
Delano has returned twice to
see how their lives have changed
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Thu 13 Oct 2022
07.00 BST
