The Zabbaleen people who have served as Cairo's informal garbage collectors for the past 70 to 80 years. Zabbaleen means Garbage people in Egyptian Arabic.Spread out among seven different settlements scattered in the Greater Cairo Urban Region, the Zabbaleen population is between 50,000 and 70,000. The largest settlement is Mokattam village, nicknamed as Garbage City, located at the foot of the Mokattam Mountains, next to Manshiyat Naser.The Zabbaleen community in Mokattam Village has a population of around 20,000 to 30,000, over 90 percent of which are Coptic Christians
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