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A view from the top of Moquattam hill of the Zabbaleen area. Here More than 80.000 people live thanks to the garbage. The 90% are Christian Coptic.

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The main street of Moquattam.A woman with children burning garbage.

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A boy Inside a building doing door to door collection.

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Young plastic worker.

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The community inside a Cafeteria, during their break.

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A Glass collector infront of his factory in Zabbaleen's area. They recycling the 80% of the rubbish they collect.

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The top of Moquattam, here the church of Saint Samaan the Tanner group together thousand of faithful.

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Countless fragments of plastic inside a factory in Moquattam. Many Zabbaleen suffer health problems such as hepatitis, throats and breathing problems.

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A traditional christian tattoo on the right wrist.

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The Zabbaleen community use to tattoo their children with a Coptic cross on the right wrist. The Coptics use the tattoos to point out their Christian identity.

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A Zabbaleen collecting garbage in the city in the nightime, looking for useful trash in the bin of a formal dustman.

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Inside a plastic factory in Nasser Hill. The Zabbaleen sell these sorted materials to factories that then reuse these products in the creation of new material.

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An Old woman in her House. She collect organic rubbish to survive since his husband died with a poisoned needle. A lot of hospital trash were deposed in this area.

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Mens getting ready for the prey. Every Sunday more than 5000 people come to attend the Mass.

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A Christian ceremony in a temporary tent in the streets of Moquattam.

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A young Zabbaleen in a cafeteria.

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Members of the coptic community show a traditional religious sheet. They use to wrap babies in this sheet during the baptism ceremony.

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A girl plays on the top of Moquattam.

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A doll's head in the streets of Moquattam. The children of the community waits at home with their mothers to sort the collected waste.

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Among the coptic community tattoos are often used to point out the christian identity. Moquattam, Cairo, 2011.

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Cafeteria in Moquattam.

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A wedding in Moquattam.

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A young boy waves egyptian flag on the top of a pigeon house in Moquattam mountain.

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