Cornelia Tumale knows the one tiny room she occupies in an abandoned government housing project in Manila is no place to raise six children.
“I wanted just one more child since moving to this place after having three children in the province,” says Ms Tumale, sitting outside the cramped quarters which are no bigger than a large car.
The 46-year-old had three more children instead of one. She had used intrauterine devices to space her pregnancies before moving to Manila and was shocked to discover that government doctors in the capital refused to fit her with one after she gave birth to her fourth child in 2002.
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