An Unlikely Model for a Positive Environmental Change
Posted May 1st, 2008 by sprinamoon
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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.


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