The+Cairo+Slum

Cairo is located in Cairo,Egypt.(Capital of Egypt) The Manshiyet Nasser slum is one of the poorest areas in Cairo. It is home to tens of thousands of people who are best referred to as the " Zabaleen" meaning garbage collector in Arabic. I learned that they recycle by hand. A lot of trash is brought in from Cairo each and every day. They use donkey carts instead of garbage trucks because of the width of the street.(Hmmmmm...) Children and women sort through metal bits,and rotted food everyday,and they only get about a dollar every day. I think that's really hard. Living of of a dollar when they have a family to clothe and feed.(Not to mention themselves!!!) That's what they live on. The women and children sort the garbage and put them into separate bags(plastics with plastics,aluminum with aluminum...) and they try to sell it. A thought I had on this is that where are the men? Why don't some of them help?(I mean, like, that's a lot of garbage to go through!) Organic waste that doesn't get sold gets fed to pigs. This is something else I learned in the slideshow. The Proctor&Gamble School has been teaching,over the past six months, kids about recycling and has been recycling, also. They have recycled over a million plastic containers. The kids at school wash the bits of plastic,dry them, and then ship them off, in bags, to be melted and reused. That's what I learned about the Cairo Slum.