A campaign launched by the Egyptians on the social networking site "Facebook" succeeded in pushing the neighborhood of East Shubra El-Kheima in Greater Cairo to return a poor carriage to a poor woman who supports the parents, two sisters and two brothers, each of whom has three children, and earns her livelihood by collecting plastic waste, which was confiscated by the neighborhood authority in the framework of a cleaning campaign .
While the neighborhood authority officials affirmed their observance of the social conditions of the poor Egyptian citizen, who was called medialy "Lady of the Karu", and returned the vehicle exceptionally to her, the neighborhood authority maintained her right to defend the environment and cleanliness and take the measures required by this care.
The East Shubra Al-Khaima neighborhood of the Qalyubia Governorate (Greater Cairo) launched a comprehensive hygiene campaign last Tuesday, in which a number of carts were confiscated, and they were traveling on public streets, including a vehicle belonging to Mrs. Aisha, 20, and on it Plastic materials that the woman collects to sell and support her family.
The image of the woman and the details of the incident raised the Egyptian street, after she published her picture and her story on Facebook, and it was found that she lives in a small room, in the shantytown, in the Al-Khusus area, on the outskirts of Cairo with her mother, her father, two sisters and two brothers who support three children, and she also counts two children, The family works in collecting and sorting garbage. The lady, who has become referred to as the "Lady of the Caro", said in media statements on YouTube that they "do not own the confiscated cart, and they eat it (live), and they rent it for a daily value of 50 Egyptian pounds." Lady Karo said: “She took the children out of the cart, and told them that we are orphans, we make money from the cart, and some of them sympathized with it, but others insisted on taking the cart and she insisted on going with them, and there they asked them to walk in the lanes and not to roam the main streets, so we returned to them The streets are our source of income. ”
For his part, the journalist, Tamer Amin, praised in his program "the end of the day" in his comment on the incident, the head of the neighborhood to his descent to the field and not only staying in his office, but Amin criticized the same person because he "left everything and grabbed the vehicle belonging to the simple lady, as if he had held a terrorist organization The woman was horrified, as she saw the cars and officials in full elegance, without knowing what I had done for all this. ” "The surprise for the lady is that there are a million Karoo vehicles on the streets, so why was she caught alone?" Amin added.
Amin acknowledged that “the incident was a violation despite all this, but millions sympathized with the lady on Facebook, then the topic was communicated to the governor who stated that he would help (Lady of the Karu) and search for a way to do so, then he ended up issuing a decision to return the vehicle and the donkey to (Lady Karo) ), With a commitment made not to violate in the future. ” The Secretary saluted social media, considering that it had played its required role, as he demanded that officials take into account (jurisprudence of priorities) in making their decisions.
For its part, Qalyubia Governorate issued a statement regarding the incident, in which it said: “Regarding what was raised in the media media about the seizure of a Karo cart that dumps waste on the public road on 15th of May Street in East Shubra El-Kheima district, we would like to note that there is a decision that prevents the Karou cars from running in the main streets, where These vehicles dump the buildings and garbage on the sidewalk in the middle of the street. ”
The statement continued that «they were warned continuously two months ago not to throw in the public streets covered by the decision, and there are many complaints of poor hygiene in public streets only because of these vehicles, and the vehicle was seized during the comprehensive campaign in the presence of the Secretary-General of the province, which is not the vehicle The only one, but more than 30 vehicles were seized, and they were warned not to repeat the violation ».
A call to balance
Media and environmental activist Mohamed Hassani, on his Facebook page, called on public opinion to balance in criticizing the incident, pointing out that maintaining cleanliness and non-pollution is an urgent demand and duty of everyone, whether from the people and the street or from the political level, and that criticism in the incident It should be limited to taking into account its humanitarian dimension and its implications, and that efforts be made to continue such campaigns to preserve the Egyptian street.
A street-cleaning campaign in the East Shubra Al-Khaimah neighborhood raises controversy due to its lack of consideration of the human dimension of some groups that feed on garbage and waste collection.