Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
They’re called zabaleen, after an Arabic phrase meaning ‘garbage people’, and you wouldn’t want to be one:
Most of the inhabitants of Garbage City are Coptic Christians.
An estimated 60,000 – 70,000 Zabaleen live in an area known locally as Garbage City, and are mostly descendants of poor farmers from Upper Egypt who settled [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday I described some basic insights from my two days in London, participating as one of about thirty practitioners in a Gates Foundation roundtable on the subject of WS&H: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.
It’s good for you, and good for the world
[For more context, see my seven-part exploration of the economics of [...]
Two days in the workshop
During June, I spent two days of vacation allowance (”it is well known that you have an unusual sense of fun,” as an Army buddy says to T. E. Lawrence early in the film) in London, participating as one of about thirty practitioners in a Gates Foundation roundtable on the subject [...]
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