An Unlikely Model for a Positive Environmental Change
Posted May 1st, 2008 by sprinamoon
This fascinating story is about how Zabaleens ("garbage collectors" in Arabic), along with some forward-thinking environmentalists, are bringing about a positive change in this age of global warming. Despite their dire living conditions in a slum neighborhood near Cairo, Egypt, their recycling effort caught the attention of UNESCO and Procter & Gamble who started to invest in the Mokattam Non-Formal Education Project, an informal recycling school where students learn about the science of recycling.
This story is a part of the Climate Connections series, a year-long project that NPR and National Geographic has undertaken to learn more about how the earth's changing climate affects people and how people are changing the earth's climate.
This fascinating story is about how Zabaleens ("garbage collectors" in Arabic), along with some forward-thinking environmentalists, are bringing about a positive change in this age of global warming. Despite their dire living conditions in a slum neighborhood near Cairo, Egypt, their recycling effort caught the attention of UNESCO and Procter & Gamble who started to invest in the Mokattam Non-Formal Education Project, an informal recycling school where students learn about the science of recycling.
This story is a part of the Climate Connections series, a year-long project that NPR and National Geographic has undertaken to learn more about how the earth's changing climate affects people and how people are changing the earth's climate.