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The dwellers of Izba Margoshy camps call for help
According to the continuous violations committed by the government against the poor in the arable and rural areas concerning the right in adequate and healthy housing, we show the problem of camps’ dwellers in Bahteem. The problem began in last February, when the local council of Shubra el Khema decided to subvert four buildings no. 2, 9, 14, and 17 located in Hassan Mansour Street. About the dwellers of these building (14 family), they were sent to the lodging camps in Izba Margoshy, Bahteem. The same thing was repeated with the surrounding buildings. More than 38 family was evicted by force from their houses, when the security official in el Kaliobia province and a member of the People’s Assembly promised them that their accommodation in the camp would exceed more than ten days. They only have to pay LE800 to receive alternative flat in the first or the last floor in el Khanka City.
When the families collected the determined sum, they went to the officials to pay out the necessary amount to receive alternative flats. Unfortunately, the officials told them that these flats were built for the youth and catastrophes afflicted, moreover, they have to wait till the government build other buildings in the future. Therefore, the families presented many complaints before the officials in the province and the different ministries but all these efforts were in vain. The families understood that all these promises were because of the elections of the local councils, on the other hand, the camps’ number reached 38, where more than 200 person lived.
After that the local council decided to move these camps to the surrounding area of fever hospital, where the children and women couldn’t live because of garbage hills. Therefore, the families refused to move to the new place that pushed the province official to denied their living in these camps made of cloth (2x3 meter) located in the public road under the electricity wires. More than 200 person live in these camps without any services “water and sewerage” that obliged the families to steal the electricity from the surrounding electricity pillar from 8 PM to 6 Am. Moreover, most of the camp dwellers suffer from dermal diseases so they went to the neighbouring hospital that sent a doctor to the camp to inject the dwellers fearing from diseases widespread.
We ask the Dakahlia governor; how can the street people live, eat, take shower, practise their natural lives!!
Uncle Mohamed (blind man) said that he wrote many complaints to the officials wondering about the camps that increased all the time about which many papers wrote many articles that pushed the officials to decide to move these camps to unseen places. One of the women (divorced & have two kids) said, “I live in this camp alone with my to young kids frightening from any attack. About the new place, I visited it with my neighbour. It is so awful that we suffered from annoyance from the youth in the café during our visit. What can I do while I work as a maid for survive?”
The centre sees that those people stopped wishing to receive alternative flats that they wish if they don’t move to garbage hills and den of criminals. The centre presented many complaints before the governor asking for solving the problems of the families in order to protect their rights in safe life and adequate housing.