Choices of entertainment are rather limited when living in poverty. Public parks or other such public places were very, very few. There were none in the area of Cordova where I stayed.The most common form of entertainment is sports such as basketball, volleyball, etc - if one can afford a ball - and karaoke.
A ball can be relatively expensive, in comparison to ones income there. I purchased a basketball for about six hundred (600) pesos, approximately fifteen (15) U.S. dollars. Understand the average daily pay is about two hundred (200) pesos. They were extremely thankful for the basketball and later I purchased two more balls because I noticed the younger children were fighting over the ball.
For the younger children a ball, if they're lucky to have one or share one, may be the only entertainment they have since toys would be relatively unaffordable.
Karaoke is also very popular and there are many people in the area that have a karaoke business. It is often a structure attached to their home with a coin operated karaoke machine.
This is the karaoke machine within walking distance of their home. It cost 5 pesos (approximately 12 U.S. cents / $0.12 U.S. Dollars) per song, at the time this was written.
Usually they sit outside on the road to sing. There is very little vehicle traffic on this road.
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