Christians forced to live among garbage in Egypt

First Part

In Cairo's Trash City, School Teaches Reading, Recycling

Transcript

JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: the efforts of two social entrepreneurs to make something better from garbage.

Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro has our report from Egypt.

Changing the Paradigm of Recycling

First Movie. TEDxEdges - Mário Silva - Changing the Paradigm of Recycling

Marina of the Zabbaleen

Marina of the Zabbaleen is a 2008 award-winning documentary film written and directed by Engi Wassef that examines the life of Marina, a 7-year-old Egyptian girl living in a Zabbaleen garbage-collecting village in Cairo.

Design Sketches 01

21.04.2012 Presentation

By / Ahmed Albadawy, Marzieh Gholami and Marta Sowinska
Date / 21.04.2012

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Related Research / PDF

Parameterizing the Dynamics of Slums

Approaches to Urban Slums

eVolo 2011 Honorable Mention for “Seeds Of Life” by Mekano Studio

A city piled high of trash, they call it ‘garbage city’ and it seems unstoppable. People started to get used to the situation which will lead to a huge trash covering the whole city and from another point, grabage can’t be moved outside the city.
The problem leads to another, as there is lots of diseases and polution.

Manshiyat Naser Urban Vision / Amar Ya Masr Organization

Open publication - Free publishing - More amar ya masr

This is an interesting study and design proposal for this slum proposed from one of new social organization "Amar Ya Masr".

The study is in Arabic language basically but in brief, I'll try to write some useful information in the next lines.

Garbage Dreams