rose ann ghabour

“nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”
i'm a 25 year old egyptian currently in my third year of medical school living around new york city.
January 11
57 | 1/11/2012 | 1 month ago

thesmithian: Cairo has one of the most effective recycling programs in the Middle East. But it’s borne on the backs of the city’s “garbage people,” Coptic Christians who harvest and sort 15,000 tons of waste every day. Their lives are documented in a new film Zabaleen…Cairo is nominally responsible for tending to waste. But corruption has resulted in an erosion of municipal services, and the Zabaleen take up the slack… more, plus video, here.

thesmithian:

Cairo has one of the most effective recycling programs in the Middle East. But it’s borne on the backs of the city’s “garbage people,” Coptic Christians who harvest and sort 15,000 tons of waste every day. Their lives are documented in a new film Zabaleen…Cairo is nominally responsible for tending to waste. But corruption has resulted in an erosion of municipal services, and the Zabaleen take up the slack…

more, plus video, here.

(Source: thesmithian)

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