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The modern school in the garbage settlement: different social imaginaries of the future of the Zabbaleen recycling school for boys
At 9 am, when 11-year old Ezz starts his day at the Mukattam Recycling School, he is already quite exhausted. Like most Zabballeen or juvenile garbage-collectors, he was up until well into the night the day before, gathering trash with his father in the more affluent neighborhoods of Cairo. In its c...
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| author | Abed El Fattah, Marwa Adel |
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| description | At 9 am, when 11-year old Ezz starts his day at the Mukattam Recycling School, he is already quite exhausted. Like most Zabballeen or juvenile garbage-collectors, he was up until well into the night the day before, gathering trash with his father in the more affluent neighborhoods of Cairo. In its communication material, the NGO-based school he attends in the morning promises to turn Ezz and others like him into “waste-management entrepreneurs". Fueled by this goal along with illiteracy and basic mathematics classes, Ezz is expected to hand in a monthly quota of used shampoo bottles and miscellaneous beauty product containers manufactured by Procter and Gamble (P&G), the multinational funding this innovative school. As part of his school day, Ezz spends a couple of hours preparing P&G beauty product plastic containers for recycling. This recycling process dubbed the “Shampoo Program" by the school - is optional but also crucial for the children: the token pay they receive from the school depends on their participation in this activity. When he leaves school in the early afternoon, the second and longer part of Ezz's day begins. First, at home, he has to sort out the previous day's garbage collected with his father. The evening involves going back to the streets for a new round of trash hoarding. When I met him a year ago, Ezz was still a newcomer to the Recycling School and had hopes of becoming a doctor when he grew up. One year later (2013), he had a change of mind, informing me that he wants to keep on working with his father as a zabbal because it is such a “good job" like he said. This thesis focuses on the Recycling School students' life in terms of future, work, education and well-being. |
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| spelling | oai:fount.aucegypt.edu:etds-2133 The modern school in the garbage settlement: different social imaginaries of the future of the Zabbaleen recycling school for boys Abed El Fattah, Marwa Adel At 9 am, when 11-year old Ezz starts his day at the Mukattam Recycling School, he is already quite exhausted. Like most Zabballeen or juvenile garbage-collectors, he was up until well into the night the day before, gathering trash with his father in the more affluent neighborhoods of Cairo. In its communication material, the NGO-based school he attends in the morning promises to turn Ezz and others like him into “waste-management entrepreneurs". Fueled by this goal along with illiteracy and basic mathematics classes, Ezz is expected to hand in a monthly quota of used shampoo bottles and miscellaneous beauty product containers manufactured by Procter and Gamble (P&G), the multinational funding this innovative school. As part of his school day, Ezz spends a couple of hours preparing P&G beauty product plastic containers for recycling. This recycling process dubbed the “Shampoo Program" by the school - is optional but also crucial for the children: the token pay they receive from the school depends on their participation in this activity. When he leaves school in the early afternoon, the second and longer part of Ezz's day begins. First, at home, he has to sort out the previous day's garbage collected with his father. The evening involves going back to the streets for a new round of trash hoarding. When I met him a year ago, Ezz was still a newcomer to the Recycling School and had hopes of becoming a doctor when he grew up. One year later (2013), he had a change of mind, informing me that he wants to keep on working with his father as a zabbal because it is such a “good job" like he said. This thesis focuses on the Recycling School students' life in terms of future, work, education and well-being. 2014-02-01T08:00:00Z thesis application/pdf https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1134 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/2133/viewcontent/The_20American_20University_20in_20Cairo_Thesis_Fattah.pdf The author retains all rights with regard to copyright. The author certifies that written permission from the owner(s) of third-party copyrighted matter included in the thesis, dissertation, paper, or record of study has been obtained. The author further certifies that IRB approval has been obtained for this thesis, or that IRB approval is not necessary for this thesis. Insofar as this thesis, dissertation, paper, or record of study is an educational record as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 USC 1232g), the author has granted consent to disclosure of it to anyone who requests a copy. Theses and Dissertations AUC Knowledge Fountain School recycling programs Education Egyptian |
| spellingShingle | School recycling programs Education Egyptian Abed El Fattah, Marwa Adel The modern school in the garbage settlement: different social imaginaries of the future of the Zabbaleen recycling school for boys |
| title | The modern school in the garbage settlement: different social imaginaries of the future of the Zabbaleen recycling school for boys |
| title_full | The modern school in the garbage settlement: different social imaginaries of the future of the Zabbaleen recycling school for boys |
| title_fullStr | The modern school in the garbage settlement: different social imaginaries of the future of the Zabbaleen recycling school for boys |
| title_full_unstemmed | The modern school in the garbage settlement: different social imaginaries of the future of the Zabbaleen recycling school for boys |
| title_short | The modern school in the garbage settlement: different social imaginaries of the future of the Zabbaleen recycling school for boys |
| title_sort | modern school in the garbage settlement different social imaginaries of the future of the zabbaleen recycling school for boys |
| topic | School recycling programs Education Egyptian |
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