Zabbaleen community , mokkatam hills , cairo , Egypt

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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: Zabbaleen community , mokkatam hills , cairo , Egypt
Photo credit: © paul christoforou / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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