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Makeshift school teaches marketable skills in Cairo slum

With paltry government support, the Stabl Antar Dream School is providing both a basic education and vocational training to the children of a shantytown in south Cairo.
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In the shantytown of Stabl Antar, south of Cairo, more than 1,000 poor families live in shaky, dilapidated wooden shelters on streets that are flooded from time to time with sewage. The hamlet, huddled at the base of a mountain, is also the home of Stabl Antar Dream School.

The three-story elementary school offers both normal school and vocational training, teaching the town’s children how to make carpets and pottery after school hours in an effort to help them find income-generating opportunities. Its motto is “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”

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