الحق في السكن ١ | The Right to Housing 1
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0:00 - 0:03The right to housing?
-OK and have you heard of such a thing as the right to housing? -
0:03 - 0:06-What?
-The right to housing. -
0:06 - 0:09Of course - as an Egyptian citizen I know I have the right to decent housing, a decent life and livelihood.
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0:09 - 0:12But where - who will get me these rights?
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0:12 - 0:20It's the right of every Egyptian to have housing, to be able to live decently - all of this is your right as an Egyptian!
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0:20 - 0:23It's my right, sure - but who do I demand this from?
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0:23 - 0:25No, I don't know about these things...
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0:25 - 0:28My right to housing... I've heard of it, but I don't see it in front of me.
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0:28 - 0:39No, it doesn't exist. At all.
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0:39 - 0:43Right to housing? There is no equality in housing at all. None whatsoever.
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0:43 - 0:52Urban Dangers
1. Pollution -
0:52 - 0:55There is no attention paid to sewage systems,
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0:55 - 0:57They regularly burst,
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0:57 - 1:01[44.4% of housing units in Egypt are not connected to sanitation systems.]
-Maintenance is neglected, -
1:01 - 1:03They're ruling over the country, and it remains in filth.
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1:03 - 1:06Not once have they come here and paved the road or anything for this country.
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1:06 - 1:14Those people that won in the elections promised to fix things and pave the roads and so on - and we've seen none of that.
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1:14 - 1:19Constant fires... smoke... all of that.
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1:19 - 1:30The only thing the district would do is come here and expand the roads and pile up the garbage... until you've got mountains of it.
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See this power line? -
1:30 - 1:47If one of Habib el Adly's men were living near this power line it would have been removed by now.
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1:47 - 1:49Urban Dangers
2. Collapsed buildings -
1:49 - 1:54-They pulled me out from beneath all of this rubble,
Look what it's like down there - if you look at it, you'd be too scared to pass down there. -
1:54 - 1:58This house collapsed, and the rescue team came, and got them out from above,
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1:58 - 2:02Neither the district nor the governor has paid any attention to them,
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2:02 - 2:06The house collapsed, and we've been stranded like this since Monday.
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2:06 - 2:20And no one gives a damn. No one's paid any attention to us, no one's come to us.
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2:20 - 2:27Around 2% of housing units presently have construction flaws.
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Urban Dangers
3. Forced Eviction -
2:27 - 2:34The first day the military police came, and the Ministry of Interior, they raided us out of the blue, at 6 am,
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2:34 - 2:39-[Text] This is how the poor are treated in Egypt.
They just kept demolishing everything... without a word. -
2:39 - 2:45We ended up with our things out in the open, abandoned. They broke all our things, demolished them, beat us and abused us, and then left us.
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2:45 - 2:50They did nothing else. We asked about halting the order for the demolitions - they said no, there will be no halting.
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2:50 - 2:58They demolished the building with everything inside, furniture and all. They didn't even let anyone.... take even their personal things.
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2:58 - 3:03As if we're in Gaza.
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3:03 - 3:06[Lacking the Basics]
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3:06 - 3:11I'll show you that the flat consists of a room, and something like a kitchen to keep equipment in.
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3:11 - 3:16A room, where seven people sleep. Seven people, and a common toilet.
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3:16 - 3:19A common toilet.
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3:19 - 3:21He has neither housing, nor home, nor living.
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3:21 - 3:24He and his family sleep here.
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3:24 - 3:28Around 4.5% of families live in a single room.
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3:28 - 3:31Around 6% of families use common toilets.
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3:31 - 3:35Don't ask me why I sell a loaf of bread for 50 piastres now,
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3:35 - 3:40Ask the governor! The governor refuses to subsidize you here, tells you you don't deserve it.
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3:40 - 3:58He says, you live in Mohandiseen [an upscale neighbourhood]
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3:58 - 4:03We pay a lot for the gas canisters - when we find them. We rarely find them.
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4:03 - 4:05Thirty, thirty-five pounds. ($5)
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4:05 - 4:10Around 76% of Egyptian families depend on gas canisters to cook with.
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4:10 - 4:13[Transportation]
-Yeah, transportation, we ride in semi pick-up trucks, -
4:13 - 4:17The drivers don't stop, and we can't climb in from the back,
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4:17 - 4:20And it's 1 pound ($0.17) per person, no matter how short the distance,
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4:20 - 4:23Give them half and they keep fighting with you, and there we are standing at the stop,
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4:23 - 4:25And riding in the back, too.
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4:25 - 4:32The semi-formal public transport sector (microbuses) provides around 35% of transportation needs in Cairo.
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4:32 - 4:35[Water]
-We get water but, I mean, it's usually polluted. -
4:35 - 4:39You pay for the water, either way you're paying, whether you like it or not,
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4:39 - 4:42And if you don't pay they cut off the water supply.
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4:42 - 4:46And I'm living in Nile country. We're surrounded by Nile water.
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4:46 - 4:49Water cuts for a day or more in Cairo: 37 %
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4:49 - 4:53National rate of water network loss: 50%
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4:53 - 4:59Community Self-Organization
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4:59 - 5:03For them it's a slum, but for us, it's the best place in the world.
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5:03 - 5:06It's enough that not a single incident of theft has occurred.
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5:06 - 5:10No one has dared to sneak into our neighborhood.
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5:10 - 5:13Because we're real men and we stand up to protect it.
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5:13 - 5:17Here we don't have singular roles - we take on the responsibility of the local government.
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5:17 - 5:20Meaning district governance.
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5:20 - 5:23We clean... we do the job of the Ministry of Environment.
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5:23 - 5:27We take on protection and security... the jobs of the police and the Interior Ministry.
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5:27 - 5:29We protect the place.
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5:29 - 5:33They spread the idea that people in slum areas are all filth.
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5:33 - 5:35That we don't know anything.
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5:35 - 5:38Poverty isn't a shame!
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5:38 - 5:43They are the reason - this poverty is targeted - they are the reason it exists.
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5:43 - 5:47For 20 years this place was a garbage dump.
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5:47 - 5:49We cleaned it up of our own accord.
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5:49 - 5:55Because they refused to - even the gas canisters, we get them from outside to distribute among people here.
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5:55 - 5:59But state - there is no state. Government? There is no government.
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5:59 - 6:02I got these numbers - up till 100,
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6:02 - 6:06To get a canister, you take a card, let's say number 8 - and you get that canister.
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6:06 - 6:13Out of a very small amount, I have to spend daily wages for protection,
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6:13 - 6:18With the same amount, I get bulbs and wires, to light the roads,
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6:18 - 6:24I use it to clean.
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6:24 - 6:30As you can see, some passerby donate as well.
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6:30 - 6:34So we can say... there is still good in Egypt.
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6:34 - 6:41We just need more of an awakening in conscience.
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6:41 - 6:44We stood and protected the place - why?
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6:44 - 6:47I mean.... it's your country, your people, your blood.
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6:47 - 6:52It's your place, where you live, where you grow.
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6:52 - 6:58That goes for the poor as well as the rich.
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6:58 - 7:01During the days of the revolution, things got a bit out of control,
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7:01 - 7:03We work hard, and build,
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7:03 - 7:07Lest they pop up again and cause any disturbance, you know?
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7:07 - 7:13It's your property and everything, but it brings quite a burden,
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7:13 - 7:16For anyone who wants to build. Especially someone who's ill - won't build anything at all.
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7:16 - 7:19Slums? Of course not.
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7:19 - 7:25I mean I was born here, 80 or 90 years ago, and we're doing work no one knows anything about,
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7:25 - 7:29If it's developed properly, it'll be the best place in all of Egypt.
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7:29 - 7:32These 'slums' are their own creation,
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7:32 - 7:35I am, thank God, a poor man with faith.
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7:35 - 7:40But, thank God, I am rich with God's blessings and people's prayers for me.
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7:40 - 7:46But I have the capability and the ability to do things even the biggest authority in the country can't accomplish!
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7:46 - 7:52Why, because I live in the area, and I know what will benefit the area, and what it needs.
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7:52 - 7:55Now who are they that can benefit the country?
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7:55 - 8:01And who will listen to us, and help us, and see what our demands are.
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8:01 - 8:04Our demands are not personal demands for us - they are public demands.
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8:04 - 8:08That can benefit the country, benefit the citizens using these roads.
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8:08 - 8:11The right to housing, and a just and sustainable society.
Have you taken your rights? -
8:11 - 8:16Special thanks to the people of: Kom Ghorab, el-Basateen, Shubrament, St. Katerine, Greater al-Amrawi farm, el-Hagana farm, el-Muneeb.
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8:16 -The Right to Housing Series
First Episode
- Title:
- الحق في السكن ١ | The Right to Housing 1
- Description:
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الحق في السكن ١: عشوائيات؟ لا يا بيه دى مجهودات ذاتية
الحق في السكن" فيلم من سلسلة أفلام حملة كاذبون #سارقين_عيشنا"
لمشاهدة باقي الأفلام اضخط هنا:
http://bit.ly/PmdnmxThe Right to Housing 1: Informal Areas & Community Organisation
سلسلة الحق فى السكن
الفيلم الأول
عشوائيات؟ لا يا بيه دى مجهودات ذاتيةFollow @ShadowMoH or go to www [dot] shadowministryofhousing [dot] blogspot [dot] com for more on the campaign. For information about the sources for the data used here, see: http://blog.shadowministryofhousing.org/2012/05/blog-post_31.html
- Video Language:
- Arabic
- Duration:
- 08:21
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