Cairo,+Egypt

__﻿ Cairo __ ﻿ Cairo is in Egypt. It is home of tens of thousands of people, mostly Christains known as Zabaleen, which in Arabic means "garbage collecters." The poor in Cairo have taken decades to recycle garbage by hand. Bundles of trash are brought in from Cairo each day. Even children help. Any organtic waste that can't be resold is fed to the pigs. The poverty in Manshiyet Nasser are noticed all over the world for what they do. A student washes bits of plastic that have been machine-shredded. The plastic is then bagged and sent out to be melted down for reuse. Their school is about the size of a mobile home, because they don't have enough money to build a big school like us, (GASD). Hanna Fathy is working with a nongovernmental group called Solar Cities to install solar hot-water heaters there. Hanna's neighbors used to say he was crazy as he worked on the solar heaters in the street. But then, he says they'd see the very hot water they produce and how important it is and then they asked him to make one for them. I think that the US should be more like the Zabaleen. If we were, then we would have a nice clean community. That's what our Earth should be like. Zabaleen people on a pile of trash.