UN agencies are spearheading the cash for work programmes, which they hope will provide a triple-boost to communities destroyed by Super typhoon Haiyan, with lifting morale as vital as cleaning up and helping economies.
The United Nations, working in partnership with the Philippine goverment, is hoping to create at least 200,000 jobs that could last for up to three years.
The volunteer workers are being paid between 250 and500 pesos (Bt150-Bt300)
a day to haul the debris to selected collection points,
where trucks pick them up to be taken to a temporary landfills outside the city for sorting.