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Transfer of
Experience
This project aims to use experience and
knowledge gained in the Mokattam village in other garbage
villages. The village selected is TORA village. The project is a
concerted effort, on behalf of a marginalized group of people
playing a vital role in the management of the urban environment
of a section of the huge megalopolis, Cairo - household solid
waste collection, disposal and recovery to accomplish the
following : To inform, educate and convince official government
policy and practice to reverse their decision to evict and move
the people; To support and implement a neighborhood upgrading
plan involving the ;
- planning of streets,
- construction of a school,
- outpatient clinic,
- park,
- children’s club,
- credit programs to upgrade the
garbage collection vehicles from donkey-pulled carts to
small pick-up trucks,
- credit for small and
micro-enterprise development, l
- literacy classes,
- infrastructure (water, sewage
and power lines),
- improving construction by
painting facades of building,
- planting trees,
- community mobilization and
participation.
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