Cairo+Slum



Summary: In the slide show I learned about the Cairo Slum. Cairo is located in Egypt. In Cairo the people are very poor. A group of people that are coptic christians have formed a group called the Zabaleen. This group is working together to recycle. Donkey carts are often used to carry the garbage bags because dump trucks can't fit through the narrow and dirt roads. These people have to sort through rotten food, plastic,and paper. The food that they can't recycle they feed to the pigs. These people make $1.00 a day. Even with what they make they are still proud of the way they live. They made a school to teach children how to recycle plastic. They have taught 150 children in the past 6 years how to recycle the plastic using the home made machines even though they mainly use thier hands. Hanna Fathy a man that lives in the community made a water heater to heat thier water. His neighbors made fun of him saying that he would not be able to make one using recycled materials. Then when they found out that it worked they wanted him to make them one.

Thoughts and Opinion: I think that we should make an effort to help these people. We should collect a donation to send to these people to help them. We could maybe sent them some food, money and/or some kind of thing to help them recycle faster. I also think that we should remember what we have compared to other people and how fortunate. Also we live in the United States of America. Do we want people from other countries to look at us badly because they feel we don't help people in other countries. Just like when Miss. Koch said that the people were like you're from America I bet you don't know where New Zealand is. Also a couple years ago I was at the Dominican Republic and I was getting some food when I heard someone say he's an amercan I bet he is going to waste food, because some parts of the world look at us as wasteful people. So do you want them to look at us as not carring too. Cairo is home to garbage collectors. And in Cairo, the poor have been recycling trash for decades. A good thing is that people are trying to change the world. A bunch of trash is taken to Cairo everyday, and out of all that trash 80% of it is recycled in the Vabaleen community. __ In Cairo some people get paid $1 a day __ .If there is any organic waste found it is fed to the pigs. In the Vabaleen schools the teachers teach the children the business of recycling. Cairo is located in Egypt.