Mokattam, It's a hilly suburb of Cairo called Garbage City. The Zabbaleen, a community of mainly Coptic Christians, live there. Since the '50s, they have been making a living by collecting, sorting and disposing of Cairo's waste. There are 40,000 - 50,000 people that live in this city right here in this garbage dump!
Cairo's garbage is collected and then dumped here. Residents of the dump then sort it for resale. Children often play in the street since that is the cleared area and hang out on bags of garbage.
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