cairo, egypt

coptic christians, present for 19 centuries and a small minority in egypt, have carved three amazing churches out of a rocky hill in central cairo... they recycle most of cairo's garbage... life in garbage city is both inspiring and heart wrenching as you see the smiling and friendly faces and the conditions people live in...

Location: cairo, egypt

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Cairo
• Egypt
• poverty
• recycle
• africa
• coptic
• christians
• Arabic

[aranamario]

i lived 2 years in cairo and i went to m a n y places.. the point of the video is to denounce the discrimination Christians suffer in Egypt... Muslims always complained of the way they are treated in the West, but they never talk about the way they treat minorities such as the Christian Coptics in Egypt...

[S24288]

why did the videomaker came to only the garbage places and veryyyyyyy poorrrrrrr place where garbage are collected !! i guess he need to search for MUCH better places in whole EGYPT than that silly video !! or maybe he's in love with the smell of the garbage , MAYBE ?!

[aranamario]

@S24288 i love humanity and diversity... just 3 weeks ago i was walking the streets of Monaco, one of the most wealthy places on earth.. rich and poor, black and white, Christian and Muslin, i am interested in everyone's perspectives and views in life.. i don't judge, i don't insult, i simply observe and learn... then i share my opinion of places and perspectives with others... God bless you... Yes, I am a Christian and I respect everyone's beliefs, I denounce discrimination of all sorts...

[aranamario]

kokokimo: read the news and realize that Christians are discriminated in Egypt and in every Muslim country. Muslims have more freedoms in the West than the other way around. I don't care what people eat or don't eat, but if they are denied basic human rights then there is a problem. That's all I am saying. Blessings to you regardless of what you believe or don't believe.

[aranamario]

YES egypt is awesome!! I was blessed with visiting amazing places (like the ones on your video Donia), but when I travel I like to explore beyond the tourist areas. I show this video because I am sad about the discrimination against Christians in Egypt. Coptic Christians are among the first Christians and I pray for them to be able to get good jobs and not have to recycle trash anymore. Nobody should have to live with trash in their homes!

[aranamario]

i love Cairo! this video is of the place where they recycle things people throw away... it is sad but people live this way... it is not ALL of Cairo...

[ihaveaverybadcold]

yeah this city is called garbage city ...thats the name of it ....these people collect garbage ...thats how they make a living.....they dont see anything wrong with it......

[Donia5580]

@aranamario It has nothin to do wz religion!!! as we all can see there's muslims as well! & that place is nothin but yard for recycling garbage!! In Egypt there's many diifferent religious sects already & all livin as one as Egyptians! So the tip im givin to u here is to STOP believin corporate-controlled media & find out the truth... what's on news & those kinds of media had been all swallowed from those against the middle east counrties specially Egypt as one of the powers in the whole area!

[kokokimo76]

@aranamario Poverty has no religion, these people are not like that coz they are Christians. in fact the richest man in Egypt is a christian. You can see almost all the women in the video are Muslims. garbage recycling biz in Egypt are run by Christians coz the main ops is raising pigs to feed on it. And Muslims religion conflict with raising &/or eating pigs meat. No one aught to live that way, its not the religion to blame, its the government policy failure that is putting all Egypt behind.

[Donia5580]

@aranamario Check out the followin link as u gonna find out the real Egypt in case u didnt notice! youtube.com/watch?v=JKRfFxZtDm­I

i know havin a good tour costin sums apparently was more than u can afford! next time try to make some money before u travel! & oh btw i heard there's so dirty places can never be imagined in Romania! why dont u capture & upload it here?! i guess it gonna ve more attention!

[ElZebbElkebeer]

egypt is the best