have resigned themselves to their fate of working in garbage city but they hope that one day their own children might have a better life. well that s it for now from news africa you can catch all our stories of our web sites on. some images of the exhibition connecting afro future care in berlin it s about fashion care. because i get out of the fast of the sun to drive but.
a marginalized minority in egypt each day they saw through some 6000 tons of trash mostly by hand infectious disease outbreaks a common many children die there a few hospitals and schools here. this woman wants to bring hope to register their reins of children out of poverty and change their outlook for the future in the garbage slums they call her mama maggie or mother teresa or of cairo. she has a simple message i love. to hate you my next week alex he hit me to get out of. the devout christian has brought thousands of children from garbage city to her aid organization in cairo funded by donations from all over the world here they re given health advice lessons and warm meals for 2 days the 1st step on the way out
discrimination in egypt many of them live in the slums around cairo on street a living from sorting through garbage. because they live and work in garbage in the sweltering heat surrounded by an overpowering stench to trust them gorga sort plastic bottles every day from 5 in the morning until sunset they have to quit school to support their families meaning they will probably never find a way out of it. if i had the chance to go somewhere else of course i would do it a little a little. buttons have a good place so much i used to wish for but it will never happen for me in the land . it s the fate of hundreds of thousands of people here in muncie atmospheric the so-called garbage city on the outskirts of cairo these videos were made secretly filming is not welcome here most of the garbage collectors are coptic christians
my family for three generations. my grandfather my father my brother and me there were always been silver merchants now half the family sell silver or gold. or the profitable part of the business is the trade in silva. we have traditions to maintain. i can t always do whatever i might please since there are certain ways of doing things. that s how we ve evolved. unlike the market district there are many other places in the sprawling capital that tourists rarely venture. like the slum known as the garbage city.
the governments of turkey and saudi arabia, making arrangements to get people home. the u.s. state department offering to fly american citizens out of egypt as well. american flights should start leaving tomorrow. let s take you live to cairo and the situation there this hour. ivan watson joins us live from the egyptian capital. we heard from ben wedeman a few minutes ago about what citizens are facing. men with ak-47s walking around. the danger from looters. what are you seeing in terms of the citizen there in egypt trying to protect themselves from what s happening? reporter: well, one example, randi, on my way to my hotel last night around 4:30 in the morning, a man with a stick, when he saw me approaching, ran out for a second. he is one of these kind of self-appointed neighborhood watch groups that sprang up all across this city as people went out and actually were urged by