The Zabbaleen , an Egyptian community of mainly Coptic Christians who collect ,recycle and dispose of the city of Cairo's waste
The Zabbaleen are an Egyptian community of mainly Coptic Christians who were allowed to collect and dispose of the city of Cairo's waste by feeding it to their pigs, after the outbreak of swine flu , the egyptian government ordered the slaughter of all their pigs , now the zabbaleen collect only material that they they can reuse or recycle
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Location: Muqattam, a peripheral Cairo slum(garbage city), cairo, egypt
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