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How some Egyptian youths are addressing food insecurity

Egyptian students launch an initiative that allows poor citizens to buy sandwiches with the money left by paying customers.
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In a modest restaurant on the outskirts of Cairo, paid receipts are pinned to one of the walls, allowing hungry people who have no money to use them to order a sandwich.

The restaurant has joined the "Sandwich on the Wall" initiative that was launched by three young Egyptian students to provide poor people with free food. The idea is that a customer buys a sandwich and pays for another one; a hungry person who can't afford a sandwich can take the receipt from the wall to pay for a meal.

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