Secondary school students from Poing flew to Cairo and visited children, young people, and families in a garbage city. And gave them some variety and more than just a smile.
The students also visited the kindergarten run by the Rubbish City Children association in Cairo. The Allgäu-based association Müllstadtkinder Cairo has been looking after, educating, and training children in one of the garbage cities for over 20 years. It is a quarter of the metropolis where people live in and from garbage, which they sort and recycle. And give them a break from the dreary everyday life and poor life - that's what eleven students did together with two teachers from the Poinger Dominik-Brunner-Realschule. They also wrote emails to the children and sent them to their godparents. They spent three days with 16 children and young people from the garbage city and had great fun blowing soap bubbles with the guests from Poing. The 11th student, Jan, was unfortunately ill.