Children make their way home from school past a donkey and sacks of refuse piled in the street in the Cairo suburb of Moqqatam

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The suburb is home to around 25000 people called the Zabaleen which literally means the garbage collectors The Zabaleen are said to be the world's greatest recyclers yet live in some of the worst urban squalor anywhere

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Size: 5312px × 3543px
Location: Moqqatam, Cairo, Egypt
Photo credit: © Richard Splash / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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