The Zabbaleen left drought-stricken rural Egypt for Cairo in the 1950s.
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They brought their pigs, which they fed with the city’s discarded scraps and peelings.
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Soon the Zabbaleen had evolved into a vast, informal garbage team.
There’s more to life than hair, but it’s a good place to start.
Young Zabbaleen scavengers attend a school called “Spirit of Youth.”
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“Spirit of Youth” is sponsored by a manufacturer of bottles of shampoo.
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Sorting and studying empty shampoo bottles, young Zabbaleen learn to read and write.
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