WEBVTT 00:00:14.09 --> 00:00:16.14 [ VO ] Finding this place is never a problem. 00:00:16.19 --> 00:00:21.15 Zabbaleen, the city of rubbish collectors, is shrouded by an acrid smell 00:00:21.16 --> 00:00:23.20 that most people would find unbearable. 00:00:24.21 --> 00:00:27.20 This is where waste from the whole of Cairo is brought. 00:00:28.04 --> 00:00:30.05 There are no soldiers or police officers here, 00:00:30.11 --> 00:00:32.18 the people live by their own rules, 00:00:32.19 --> 00:00:35.17 and they’re not too happy to see strangers visiting. 00:00:35.21 --> 00:00:40.19 The region is populated mainly by Coptic Christians, Egypt’s minority religion. 00:00:41.07 --> 00:00:44.23 Muslims live here too but there’s no religious conflict in Zabbaleen. 00:00:45.02 --> 00:00:48.04 The dump is a guarantee of interreligious peace, 00:00:48.11 --> 00:00:51.22 it’s the only local provider of work and livelihoods. 00:00:52.07 --> 00:01:00.15 ZABBALEEN TRASH TOWN 00:01:05.18 --> 00:01:07.08 [ VO ] Kyrollos Saad is 10. 00:01:07.13 --> 00:01:11.12 He’s spent all of his childhood in the rubbish collecting city of Zabbaleen. 00:01:11.23 --> 00:01:13.13 But he’s one of the lucky ones. 00:01:14.00 --> 00:01:18.17 Unlike his peers, Kyrollos hasn’t had to start doing any of the dirty work, yet. 00:01:18.17 --> 00:01:19.21 GERGES SAAD REFUSE COLLECTOR 00:01:19.22 --> 00:01:22.14 [ Gerges ] I don't let my child do it, 00:01:22.19 --> 00:01:24.21 because my wife works, 00:01:25.01 --> 00:01:28.03 and all the women in my family work, too. 00:01:28.08 --> 00:01:31.18 Typically, children begin to help grown-ups, 00:01:31.23 --> 00:01:34.07 when they are 10-12 years old, 00:01:34.12 --> 00:01:36.08 sometimes even earlier, 00:01:36.13 --> 00:01:38.19 if their family is destitute. 00:01:39.00 --> 00:01:43.16 So you can find children much younger than mine working here. 00:01:47.12 --> 00:01:50.06 [ VO ] Gerges inherited this job from his father, 00:01:50.14 --> 00:01:52.21 he was a refuse collector, too. 00:01:53.05 --> 00:01:56.04 They came to Zabbaleen, 45 years ago 00:01:57.20 --> 00:02:01.14 and the recycling techniques have barely changed in all those years. 00:02:06.21 --> 00:02:09.23 Gerges Saad’s family collects, sorts and cleans 00:02:09.23 --> 00:02:12.10 several different types of rubbish at a time. 00:02:12.21 --> 00:02:16.14 Typically, the men work with metal and plastic. 00:02:17.11 --> 00:02:20.11 [ Man ] This machine cleans the plastic. 00:02:21.01 --> 00:02:23.18 And this one grinds it. 00:02:23.23 --> 00:02:27.06 The first one cleans it and the second grinds it, 00:02:27.11 --> 00:02:31.09 and this one dries it and then it's ground into powder. 00:02:31.14 --> 00:02:35.14 In the end, we pack it all in bags and send it to a factory. 00:02:47.17 --> 00:02:52.23 So now this rubbish gets sold to someone who'll sort it for a second time. 00:02:53.03 --> 00:03:00.15 It will all be recycled, some of it into plastic spoons. 00:03:02.04 --> 00:03:03.15 This is what they look like. 00:03:16.11 --> 00:03:19.11 Collecting and cleaning rubbish is a family concern. 00:03:19.20 --> 00:03:21.16 The women play their part, too. 00:03:21.17 --> 00:03:23.15 They sort the food waste. 00:03:28.23 --> 00:03:31.05 MINA KARAM GERGES’ NEPHEW 00:03:31.06 --> 00:03:34.03 [ Mina ] We live apart from the rest of the city. 00:03:34.08 --> 00:03:36.10 We're independent of it. 00:03:36.15 --> 00:03:40.01 [ Gerges ] Not everyone thinks poorly of us, 00:03:40.06 --> 00:03:44.07 there are people who respect our work. 00:03:44.12 --> 00:03:47.18 But I understand people who 00:03:47.23 --> 00:03:50.22 think of us with disgust. 00:03:51.18 --> 00:03:54.15 [ Mina ] Our work is exhausting. 00:03:54.20 --> 00:03:58.07 We get very tired after a day's work, 00:03:58.12 --> 00:04:01.23 and we often have problems with our backs. 00:04:05.07 --> 00:04:08.02 Sometimes we carry 50 kg bags, 00:04:08.07 --> 00:04:10.10 up to the fifth floor, 00:04:10.15 --> 00:04:13.19 and then take them back down again, 00:04:14.00 --> 00:04:17.14 and this work saps the strength out of us! 00:04:24.04 --> 00:04:27.19 [ VO ] Shehata El-Mogaddis is one of the wealthiest people in Zabbaleen. 00:04:28.02 --> 00:04:31.11 He calls himself the Mayor of the city of rubbish collectors, 00:04:31.12 --> 00:04:34.01 but officially, there is no such position. 00:04:34.12 --> 00:04:38.06 Also, rumour has it that Shehata personally controls 00:04:38.07 --> 00:04:41.12 the sale of all glassware to recycling facilities, 00:04:41.15 --> 00:04:45.14 which, they say, generates fabulous profit for him. 00:04:53.04 --> 00:04:57.22 There’s a villa with a luxurious pigeon-loft very close to the dump entrance. 00:04:57.22 --> 00:05:00.16 Shehata never touches the rubbish himself, 00:05:00.21 --> 00:05:03.04 he just manages the process. 00:05:03.07 --> 00:05:05.12 He doesn’t even clean his own house, 00:05:05.14 --> 00:05:07.10 he has a housekeeper for that. 00:05:12.18 --> 00:05:15.12 [ Reporter ] What do you expect from the government? 00:05:15.22 --> 00:05:19.05 [ Shehata ] We need the newest vehicles 00:05:19.05 --> 00:05:22.20 to transport the rubbish from the city to the dump, 00:05:23.00 --> 00:05:25.02 and modern, safe equipment. 00:05:25.07 --> 00:05:29.05 If the government approves the treatment project, 00:05:29.10 --> 00:05:33.19 it will be very good for rubbish collectors! 00:05:33.19 --> 00:05:37.19 SHEKHATA EL-MOGADDIS UNOFFICIAL ‘MAYOR’ OF ZABBALEEN 00:05:37.20 --> 00:05:41.00 [ Shehata ] Look, our bodies are full of bacteria. 00:05:41.04 --> 00:05:46.06 We were born of fathers who also collected rubbish in Zabbaleen. 00:05:46.11 --> 00:05:50.14 Microbes and bacteria from the dump are already inside us, 00:05:50.19 --> 00:05:55.00 but they only strengthen our immune system against disease. 00:05:55.04 --> 00:06:00.10 If I was an ordinary citizen, I wouldn't look like I do now! 00:06:01.00 --> 00:06:05.13 [ Ezzat ] Shehata? He’s my uncle. [ Correspondent ] It’s a successful story. 00:06:05.14 --> 00:06:08.18 Yes. Because his father was rich since the beginning. 00:06:09.10 --> 00:06:14.13 90% of the community are poor, who are the regular garbage collectors, 00:06:14.14 --> 00:06:20.20 who are relying on the garbage which they collect, sort, sell to recycling. 00:06:24.05 --> 00:06:25.16 EZZAT NAEEM TEACHER, HISTORIAN 00:06:25.17 --> 00:06:29.20 [ Ezzat ] As you see, families are sorting, people are compacting paper. 00:06:29.20 --> 00:06:31.04 Hi, Ramon! 00:06:31.04 --> 00:06:35.09 They are compacting the paper using the electrical compactor. 00:06:37.18 --> 00:06:43.08 We have our own life, we have grocery shops, we have butchers, coffee shops, as you see. 00:06:43.09 --> 00:06:46.18 Because men, after collecting the garbage, 00:06:46.19 --> 00:06:51.12 have a rest for a while and come to the coffee shop to drink tea or to smoke shisha. 00:06:59.08 --> 00:07:04.10 Any problem or conflict that’s happening between each other is resolved internally. 00:07:04.23 --> 00:07:09.05 The big leaders of the families. Here, we respect the old people. 00:07:09.18 --> 00:07:14.07 So once there is a problem, the old people have a round table together: 00:07:14.08 --> 00:07:19.12 “No, you should apologise to him”. “Yes, I am sorry”, khalas, the problem is finished. 00:07:19.21 --> 00:07:25.05 Never go to the police station, never invite the police, we don’t like them by the way, 00:07:25.05 --> 00:07:27.12 because they come to make the problem more higher. 00:07:31.11 --> 00:07:34.20 GERGES SAAD REFUSE COLLECTOR 00:07:35.00 --> 00:07:40.04 [ Gerges ] Mina has recently had a serious talk with a guy, our neighbour. 00:07:40.09 --> 00:07:42.10 Then they came to our place, 00:07:42.15 --> 00:07:45.04 and started shooting their guns. 00:07:45.09 --> 00:07:48.01 My brother and I were wounded, 00:07:48.06 --> 00:07:51.01 and had to go to the hospital. 00:07:51.09 --> 00:07:53.12 It was a grave threat for us, 00:07:53.17 --> 00:07:56.22 we were sitting down here when they came. 00:07:57.02 --> 00:07:59.14 We were scared for our children, 00:07:59.19 --> 00:08:04.09 that they could be kidnapped when they go outside. 00:08:04.14 --> 00:08:07.12 But then we sorted the matter, 00:08:07.17 --> 00:08:10.20 and made peace in the church, 00:08:11.06 --> 00:08:14.18 the boss arrived and we came to a settlement. 00:08:14.23 --> 00:08:17.21 Nothing like that ever happened again! 00:08:20.13 --> 00:08:23.22 [ VO ] The Copts claim to be among the world’s earliest Christians, 00:08:23.22 --> 00:08:28.05 they believe that their ancestors is converted when Jesus still lived, 00:08:28.05 --> 00:08:33.05 and since then, they’ve always tried to resolve problems peacefully, the Christian way. 00:08:50.21 --> 00:08:54.01 [ Gerges ] The Bible says everyone should live in peace, 00:08:54.06 --> 00:08:57.00 that children of God will be alright, 00:08:57.04 --> 00:09:02.00 that people will trust me because of my smile. 00:09:02.04 --> 00:09:04.23 that I won't deceive anyone. 00:09:05.14 --> 00:09:08.10 You can see my love for Jesus, 00:09:08.23 --> 00:09:11.12 when I'm talking to someone. 00:09:11.19 --> 00:09:15.10 They say that if you see a person, 00:09:15.17 --> 00:09:19.13 who is walking and smiling to you, 00:09:19.19 --> 00:09:22.23 then you've met a true Christian! 00:09:29.06 --> 00:09:30.16 [ Kyrollos ] Wait, wait! 00:09:34.17 --> 00:09:36.09 Come kiss the cross! 00:09:42.13 --> 00:09:45.11 You're not supposed to put it in your mouth! 00:09:58.03 --> 00:09:59.19 Let's go! Hurry! 00:10:00.00 --> 00:10:02.06 Mina is letting the birds out! 00:10:07.17 --> 00:10:09.05 [ Mina ] Let out the pigeons! 00:10:22.22 --> 00:10:25.09 They're our pigeons, in the middle! 00:10:25.20 --> 00:10:28.06 Look, look, there, in the middle! 00:10:30.00 --> 00:10:31.15 This is so cool! 00:10:37.01 --> 00:10:38.22 And these are baby birds. 00:10:41.10 --> 00:10:43.13 Look, it’s black and yellow! 00:10:59.19 --> 00:11:02.11 [ Gerges ] You can make a tasty dish of them. 00:11:02.21 --> 00:11:05.02 We eat them with rice! 00:11:05.18 --> 00:11:07.09 Have you tried it? 00:11:07.13 --> 00:11:10.16 All this area, it's full of pigeons, look. 00:11:10.21 --> 00:11:12.18 There are lots of them. 00:11:13.00 --> 00:11:14.14 It's a sport, a hobby. 00:11:15.18 --> 00:11:19.14 It's a hobby for half of a neighborhood. 00:11:23.20 --> 00:11:24.23 [ Kyrollos ] Look! 00:11:25.03 --> 00:11:28.00 Now you can see all our pigeons! 00:11:45.04 --> 00:11:49.00 [ VO ] Gerges Saad’s working day begins at 3.30 every morning. 00:11:56.14 --> 00:12:00.18 Every Zabbaleen dweller is assigned a specific part of Egypt’s capital. 00:12:01.14 --> 00:12:05.05 Collecting waste from a colleague’s territory is strictly taboo. 00:12:05.13 --> 00:12:09.23 All rubbish collectors religiously observe the unspoken rules. 00:12:15.16 --> 00:12:17.06 [ Gerges ] I do it every day. 00:12:17.11 --> 00:12:20.00 I collect all types of rubbish, 00:12:20.05 --> 00:12:23.09 no matter what: food waste, paper, 00:12:23.14 --> 00:12:27.06 various boxes, bottles, all types of plastic. 00:12:30.02 --> 00:12:33.13 I work every day, except Sunday. 00:12:34.09 --> 00:12:37.13 I collect rubbish from every house I visit, 00:12:37.18 --> 00:12:39.22 and put it all into the vehicle, 00:12:40.02 --> 00:12:41.13 and then we go home. 00:12:41.18 --> 00:12:43.18 I work with my son, 00:12:43.23 --> 00:12:45.10 we help each other. 00:12:50.22 --> 00:12:53.05 Ok, son, let's call it a day. 00:13:07.20 --> 00:13:12.18 [ Ezzat ] Look, each ton of garbage is generating 5 daily jobs: 00:13:12.22 --> 00:13:17.07 2 are collecting from door to door, one is transporting, 00:13:17.08 --> 00:13:21.01 and 2 are sorting, so it’s 5 at the beginning, 00:13:21.09 --> 00:13:27.03 and other 7 indirect jobs, who are recycling paper, plastic, metal, glass. 00:13:27.03 --> 00:13:34.18 Each ton of garbage of Cairo is creating 12 jobs every day. 00:13:35.20 --> 00:13:38.01 EZZAT NAEEM TEACHER, HISTORIAN 00:13:38.03 --> 00:13:41.05 You see, these things are coming from the garbage. 00:13:41.06 --> 00:13:50.08 It’s also make-up, brands. This is something for massage. 00:13:51.15 --> 00:13:53.17 [ Camerman ] Do you know for what kind of massage this is? 00:13:54.00 --> 00:13:56.05 [ Ezzat ] I don’t know, she knows.. 00:13:56.05 --> 00:14:05.23 She told me to read this carefully. What kind of massage? Do you know? For ladies or men? 00:14:06.17 --> 00:14:09.05 All these things are in the garbage. 00:14:09.06 --> 00:14:15.06 So they sell such these tiny things and people go to the market only shouting. 00:14:18.19 --> 00:14:20.12 [ Woman ] Come here, come here! 00:14:20.17 --> 00:14:22.22 Don't steal, or you go to hell! 00:14:23.02 --> 00:14:24.06 Come and buy! 00:14:24.11 --> 00:14:26.02 Old man, come and buy! 00:14:45.03 --> 00:14:46.21 [ Buyer ] This costs 10 pounds? 00:14:47.17 --> 00:14:49.01 But it's broken! 00:14:49.06 --> 00:14:50.21 Give me another price! 00:14:51.17 --> 00:14:52.17 [ Seller ] Four pounds! 00:14:54.00 --> 00:14:55.00 Four pounds! 00:14:56.15 --> 00:14:57.23 Show me the money! 00:14:58.20 --> 00:15:01.15 [ VO ] This is Cairo’s biggest Friday market, 00:15:01.16 --> 00:15:04.07 it’s near the city of Rubbish collectors, 00:15:04.14 --> 00:15:07.07 people come to buy gifts for their nearest and dearest, 00:15:07.09 --> 00:15:09.23 and anything else that might need at home. 00:15:11.01 --> 00:15:14.03 [ Local ] I ride in a car around the city and shout: 00:15:14.08 --> 00:15:16.21 'Bring your old things here!' 00:15:17.01 --> 00:15:20.23 I've never felt like an important man, 00:15:21.03 --> 00:15:24.00 but President Sisi makes us so. 00:15:24.05 --> 00:15:26.05 Our president is like that! 00:15:26.10 --> 00:15:28.05 Sisi is the man! 00:15:28.10 --> 00:15:30.01 He is, I mean it! 00:15:35.11 --> 00:15:39.01 I earn 2 to 3 million pounds a month! 00:15:39.09 --> 00:15:40.14 What? 00:15:41.05 --> 00:15:42.18 Jokes aside? 00:15:45.07 --> 00:15:46.16 A thousand. 00:16:00.10 --> 00:16:02.23 [ VO ] Kyrollos’s parents don’t buy him toys. 00:16:03.07 --> 00:16:08.23 He can find everything that interests him in the dump, and that saves money. 00:16:13.13 --> 00:16:18.11 Returning to see Gerges Saad, we meet the butcher shop owner, Sameer Fatee. 00:16:19.15 --> 00:16:22.01 [ Sameer ] Come here, I'll show you. 00:16:24.10 --> 00:16:26.04 Look! 00:16:27.14 --> 00:16:29.04 And all this… 00:16:32.19 --> 00:16:34.17 This is feed for pigs. 00:16:47.08 --> 00:16:50.16 [ VO ] It’s hard to imagine swine being kept in a Muslim country 00:16:50.17 --> 00:16:55.12 but the Copts are Christians, and pork is a staple part of their diet. 00:17:00.09 --> 00:17:05.18 [ Sameer ] I want to say that we don’t have conflicts between Christians and Muslims. 00:17:05.23 --> 00:17:08.21 Terrorism doesn't stem from here. 00:17:10.04 --> 00:17:14.05 We live together and we do business together. 00:17:14.09 --> 00:17:17.20 We eat and drink together. 00:17:20.04 --> 00:17:22.14 [ Voice ] Most of my neighbours are Christians. 00:17:25.12 --> 00:17:27.15 "You have your religion, and I have mine." 00:17:34.10 --> 00:17:36.22 [ Local resident ] Come here, you'll see them now! 00:17:42.16 --> 00:17:46.02 Pigs are man's friends. 00:17:46.08 --> 00:17:49.02 At the same time, their meat is tasty. 00:17:49.14 --> 00:17:55.08 I slaughter them right here. 00:17:58.11 --> 00:18:00.14 First, we hang them, 00:18:02.05 --> 00:18:04.10 then we bring them down to my shop, 00:18:04.18 --> 00:18:07.21 I have my shop there. 00:18:08.05 --> 00:18:09.18 Look here. 00:18:11.00 --> 00:18:13.16 This is not an Egyptian pig. 00:18:13.22 --> 00:18:16.21 Please note it's a Brazilian one. 00:18:17.04 --> 00:18:21.23 You see, it has a long snout. 00:18:22.22 --> 00:18:25.11 And by this snout you know that it is a Brazilian breed. 00:18:27.18 --> 00:18:30.15 Before, I worked as a bus driver 00:18:30.20 --> 00:18:33.17 for a travel agency, from 1990, 00:18:33.22 --> 00:18:37.12 and then tourism declined abruptly, 00:18:37.17 --> 00:18:42.05 and I had to switch to this business. 00:18:42.10 --> 00:18:47.02 I've met different people, when I saw you I knew you were from Russia, 00:18:47.07 --> 00:18:50.13 even though I don't speak a foreign language! 00:18:50.18 --> 00:18:53.06 Russians always look like Russians! 00:18:57.14 --> 00:18:59.04 People should do everything using their wits. 00:18:59.04 --> 00:19:00.22 Look here, mister! 00:19:00.23 --> 00:19:03.19 I weigh the meat before cooking it, 00:19:04.00 --> 00:19:07.00 to estimate how much money I'll make. 00:19:09.06 --> 00:19:11.05 I don't take chances at work! 00:19:11.10 --> 00:19:13.01 It weighs 11 kg. 00:19:23.04 --> 00:19:24.09 Try it! 00:19:28.15 --> 00:19:31.02 So I've mixed it all with spices. 00:19:31.21 --> 00:19:34.12 When it's dark, I'll fire up the grill! 00:19:38.06 --> 00:19:40.18 [ VO ] Not long ago, pork was banned in Egypt. 00:19:41.06 --> 00:19:46.10 The Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary majority decided to have all the livestock in the country killed, 00:19:46.17 --> 00:19:49.19 including the Christian owned pigs of Zabbaleen. 00:19:50.06 --> 00:19:56.03 [ Ezzat ] At that time, Zabbaleen’s rubbish collectors started to sort the organic in downtown 00:19:56.03 --> 00:20:01.16 and keep it the containers of the multinational companies in the big streets of Cairo. 00:20:01.17 --> 00:20:04.06 So Cairo was very bad-smelled and dirty. 00:20:04.07 --> 00:20:10.08 It went for 2 years, then revolution of 21th of January in Egypt. 00:20:10.09 --> 00:20:13.19 Zabbaleen come back again to raise animals. 00:20:13.19 --> 00:20:17.15 If the president out of the system, or the Prime Minister, 00:20:17.16 --> 00:20:19.14 his deputy or Vice can replace him. 00:20:19.15 --> 00:20:23.14 But if a garbage collector is away from Cairo, 00:20:23.15 --> 00:20:24.18 no one can replace him. 00:20:24.19 --> 00:20:26.03 Cairo will be dying. 00:20:33.14 --> 00:20:37.09 [ VO ] Gerges Saad’s family seldom eats meat, whether pork or beef: 00:20:37.20 --> 00:20:40.05 only once a week, on Sundays. 00:20:40.09 --> 00:20:43.05 That’s mainly because it’s such an expensive treat, 00:20:43.06 --> 00:20:47.13 it can costs between 50 and 100 Egyptian pounds a kilo, 00:20:47.14 --> 00:20:49.09 that’s 5 to 10 dollars. 00:20:49.12 --> 00:20:56.06 [ Man ] How much do you spend on food? 00:20:57.07 --> 00:20:59.02 [ Woman ] We don't count. 00:20:59.21 --> 00:21:01.14 [ Gerges ] We buy various foods. 00:21:01.19 --> 00:21:04.06 It's impossible to say for sure. 00:21:04.11 --> 00:21:08.16 For example, a breakfast for everyone may cost 10 pounds. 00:21:08.20 --> 00:21:14.00 We make fried eggs and French fries. 00:21:16.05 --> 00:21:18.18 A lunch may cost 20-25 pounds. 00:21:19.00 --> 00:21:20.18 [ Woman ] We eat 3 times a day, 00:21:20.23 --> 00:21:24.22 because we work a lot: breakfast, lunch, dinner. 00:21:25.01 --> 00:21:30.05 We have dinner at 7-8 pm, when we come back from work, when the work is done. 00:21:30.10 --> 00:21:32.00 Our work is very hard. 00:21:34.01 --> 00:21:36.23 Take us to another country and we'll leave this place! 00:21:47.08 --> 00:21:49.11 [ VO ] There is a local school in Zabbaleen, 00:21:49.19 --> 00:21:52.19 but not even that can guarantee Kyrollos an education 00:21:52.19 --> 00:21:56.07 that will allow him to do anything other than collect and sort rubbish. 00:22:04.12 --> 00:22:07.09 Children study their native tongue and mathematics, 00:22:07.23 --> 00:22:11.21 but refuse sorting lessons tend to outweigh all other subjects. 00:22:12.01 --> 00:22:17.09 Since the school opened, only 3 or 4 people have ever managed to escape from the dump. 00:22:17.12 --> 00:22:22.17 Everyone else has had little choice but to stay, live and work here. 00:22:24.14 --> 00:22:27.00 MINA KARAM GERGES’ NEPHEW 00:22:27.02 --> 00:22:31.02 [ Man ] How do you live in such conditions? [ Mina ] This is our life. 00:22:31.07 --> 00:22:33.08 What can we do? 00:22:34.20 --> 00:22:37.07 God defined our fate, so be it. 00:22:37.12 --> 00:22:41.10 I can show you how we work with needles and sharp objects. 00:22:42.01 --> 00:22:47.10 [ Man ] Aren't you afraid of getting an infection? [ Mina ] What to do? We need to eat. 00:22:56.16 --> 00:22:59.00 [ Local resident ] We want to go abroad very much. 00:22:59.05 --> 00:23:01.07 I'm one of these people. 00:23:01.12 --> 00:23:04.14 If I find a job abroad, I'll go there. Any job! 00:23:04.19 --> 00:23:08.02 Do you remember Shnuda, who was with us earlier? 00:23:08.07 --> 00:23:10.19 A needle this size cut into his hand. 00:23:11.00 --> 00:23:14.21 It pierced his finger to here! So, his whole body rotted. 00:23:15.01 --> 00:23:18.01 I only pricked my finger in the morning. 00:23:18.06 --> 00:23:19.20 [ Mina ] It's ok! 00:23:20.00 --> 00:23:21.12 [ Local resident ] I pressed the wound, 00:23:21.17 --> 00:23:24.06 there was bleeding and that was it! 00:23:25.21 --> 00:23:27.12 We are animals! 00:23:34.14 --> 00:23:36.07 [ Ezzat ] They were farmers, 00:23:36.08 --> 00:23:39.16 about 70 years ago, left their land and came here, 00:23:39.17 --> 00:23:41.19 so they don’t have another job. 00:23:41.19 --> 00:23:43.06 That’s why when you tell them, 00:23:43.07 --> 00:23:48.17 this is infection, they say: “No, we have our good immunity”. 00:23:48.23 --> 00:23:50.17 No, we have health problems. 00:23:50.18 --> 00:23:55.05 More than 42% of the community are infected with hepatitis B and C. 00:23:55.05 --> 00:23:57.04 We have also a lot of skin diseases. 00:23:57.04 --> 00:24:01.07 We pay a very high price from our health, from our life. 00:24:01.13 --> 00:24:06.09 The average age of mortality here is not more than 55 years. 00:24:06.20 --> 00:24:09.10 People are dying so young here. 00:24:24.21 --> 00:24:27.20 [ Man ] Is this your favourite place? [ Kyrollos ] No. 00:24:28.00 --> 00:24:29.00 [ Cameraman ] Why? 00:24:30.09 --> 00:24:32.18 [ Kyrollos ] Because I may fall from the roof. 00:24:33.05 --> 00:24:35.17 [ Man ] What do you dream of, Kyrollos? 00:24:36.06 --> 00:24:39.10 [ Kyrollos ] I want to be a doctor and leave this place. 00:24:40.13 --> 00:24:43.04 [ Gerges ] I don't want my son to end up like me. 00:24:43.10 --> 00:24:46.07 I want him to have a better life than I do. 00:24:46.12 --> 00:24:48.12 But no work is shameful. 00:24:48.17 --> 00:24:53.00 What's shameful is sitting at home and living off someone else, 00:24:53.04 --> 00:24:55.10 or begging for alms, or stealing. 00:24:55.15 --> 00:24:59.19 But the Bible says if you work hard, you'll always have bread.