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Walking around Cairo Streets.. Sweet Dream mixed with a Nightmare
Walking around Cairo streets you can find a difference between street and another, some are dirty and some are clean. The people, all social level classes mixed together at the same places, the poor asking for money or something to eat, the ones who can buy what they can, the ones who can buy what they want without a problem, and also the ones who drive a Mercedes. In some streets you can’t even walk or cross it because to much people walking and the rest driving. 
Man’s running from here and there some of them trying to reach home. Others reach work, they are out home most of the time, doing business or working, or simple doing something to earn more money.
Poor kids cleaning the car’s in the parking place, selling Kleenex to earn some pounds, other young kids walking to the school some others doing hard jobs ,etc,,, Men are very active and constructive..
Women, I really don’t know what’s the percent of women who stay at home and the ones who work out of home, the ones I know they are at home if they go out is always to do important things , they are intelligent and smart, all of them have a carrier, and almost all of them have knowledge about English language , if they don’t they will try their best to speak with you, and also they are very active, at home.
Streets, Dirty and Clean, Smart, Active, Hard workers, I was wondering ..
Who ran this Country?
Seems like people here lives by they own rules and they do the best they can for them and their families, who cares about a smelly dirty street, in some streets, you can find all kind of transportation bicycles, cars, motorcycles and even some other kind of cars pulled by a horse or a donkey all mixed together, seems like no one is in charge, police is only in some important places, and traffic officers also, and don’t park your car in a place that is not allowed to park, not even a minute , because police appear immediately and give you a ticket, where he was that see your car parked in a wrong place! And how come they don’t see the disturbance that doesn’t allowed people to drive fluently. All the time you are stocked in the street.
Where is the President, the First Lady, the city Governor the Senator and Mayor and all this people who are responsible for the City and the people, did they walked once on this streets? did they tried even once interact with the people directly and try to solve this problem, or this is not important for them ?
Cairo is a beautiful city and of course it has also wonderful clean places .Walking around Cairo streets.
Is like a good dream mixed with a nightmare .
Asking about the dirty street ,someone say , is because to much people and they mess with the streets.
Who is responsible for this?. Is there a way to keep the city clean , or you just have to forget about it, and deal with it?
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Do you realize that this article could apply on many countries?
Whether around the middle east, Europe or USA.
no money= no maintenance = no care = chaos
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I like the article so much
Yeah true, Cairo is a mix for many beautiful and poor things
the best thing in Cairo, to walk in Kornish after all people sleep
Try to walk in Garden City, Maadi Kornish, Downtown after 3 am and you will feel what i mean
The same in Alexandria, specially in winter after 2am
but if you go during the day, so you will feel the other side of the coin “the nightmare”
Enjoy walking after 3 am :)
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Thank you “H” for your comment, I agree with you that Cairo is much better at nights, specially if everybody is at home and you can enjoy it alone :)
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Sounds like a wonderful experience, the city being reflected in the spatial planning. You can’t change everything, not on a whole scale anyway, but you can always start working your way up on little things if you like. :)
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After reading your post, it seem Cairo is very interesting place.
Your pictures are also nice.
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@Ana
Yes Ana, we can not change everyhing, thanks for the advice :)
@LBJirelNo
For sure it is, thanks for the comment!
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The streets of Egypt’s capital have never been particularly clean, said Dana Moussa. But since rubbish men in Giza, a suburb of Cairo, went on strike three weeks ago, the rubbish that was once just part of the scenery quickly turned into towering monuments of civic neglect.
“I knew that the garbage men weren’t coming because they were on strike, but the store owners could go down and clean around their stores,” said Ms Moussa, a Giza resident who works for a non-profit development organisation. “Every time I asked them, the answer would be: ‘Oh it’s not my responsibility. It’s the garbage men’s responsibility.’
“The typical Egyptian answer is that my job on Earth is not to pick up trash. That’s someone else’s job.”
So Ms Moussa decided to make it her job.
As city officials bickered among each other and maggots and dead cats joined the rubbish accumulating on her street, she rallied a group of about 100 of her Facebook friends and friends-of-friends to clean up the Giza neighbourhood of Mohandiseen last Saturday.
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Moussa’s small effort – it would take thousands of workers to clean the soiled streets of Giza, she said – made headlines in Egyptian newspapers as a demonstration of how ordinary individuals can help fill a vacuum of responsibility left by those in charge.
But for Moussa, 23, the one-day clean-up also illuminated why so few Egyptians are able to organise a grassroots community action.
“It makes a difference when you’ve lived somewhere else outside Egypt and you see the way that the average citizen is responsible,”
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