Not Much For Sale

A colourful paint job and bright blue uniforms are inviting but the selection at this fish store isn't terribly exciting. When I moved here a lot of food was sold in outlets like this where the prices are cheaper but the available items were rather limited or of dubious quality. Private shops are pushing the outlets out of business.

Trash Collection Take One

Cairo has had the gift of a unique group of people, the zebaleen, literally "the garbage people", a group of people who originally moved to Cairo from Upper Egypt in the 40's and who took on the job of collecting and recycling Cairo's trash. Eventually they were told to move out of the (then) city limits to areas such as the Moqattam Hills. You can read more about them at the Ford Foundation site http://www.fordfound.org/elibrary/documents/5008/055.cfm Zebaleen Develop Incomes and Community from an Overlooked Asset.

Although in an effort to "modernise" the government has hired companies to collect trash, we still see the donkey carts that carry the soon to be recycled items to the workshops.