The pursuit of livelihoods forces many Egyptians to pursue arduous and dangerous professions, the owners of which live in a "mill" of daily suffering, and some even work in an atmosphere surrounded by fears of serious injuries or chronic diseases, and even death.
Between heaven and earth, this is perhaps the most accurate description when we talk of "scaffolding workers" - those who finish the facades of real estate - from wooden boards or often dilapidated iron poles and prone to collapse at any time.
Scaffolding workers are exposed daily to the risk of death every moment, due to poor safety standards in building scaffolding, especially in small construction projects that do not provide the required safety while working on high floors.
Nevertheless, they expose themselves to great danger at high altitude, performing their work with professionalism and mastery, and moving from "scaffold" to another with lightness and creativity like circus players, or like those who walk on ropes.
The worker Adham Mukhaimer tells us that he did not change his arduous and dangerous profession because of the absence of an alternative, as he did not know another profession from a young age.
But Mukhaimer adds with sorrow that he will not allow his children to work in this profession, especially when one of his friends remembers who fell from the scaffold dead in front of his eyes.