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الحياة في حضن الجبل

Mohamed Ali eddin 9 سبتمبر 2012 1 دقيقة قراءة

من محمد علي الدين تقول تقارير صادرة عن مركز دعم اتخاذ القرار المصري ومنظمات غير حكومية إن محافظة المنيا يوجد بها 334 محجرا لاستخراج الجير يعمل بها حوالي 15 ألف عامل معظمهم من الفلاحين والفقراء أو الخريجين الجدد الذين يعانون من البطالة. هؤلاء يعملون هناك في عالم موازي لا تعلم عنه القاهرة الصاخبة أي شىء؛ يعملون وقد يفقدون أحد أطرافهم أو حتى يموتون دون أن يحرر محضر رسمي واحد لتحديد سبب الوفاة. إنها الحياة في حضن الجبل.

According to many NGOs, the number of quarry workers may not be accurate due to the large number of unlicensed quarries that employ thousands of workers illegally, including children under the age of 16.

Minya quarries attract a lot of residents since their workers receive a daily wage between LE50 and LE100, a high amount compared to that of farmers, carpenters and auto repair workers.

During Upper Egypt’s bitterly cold winters, workers who climb the mountain have no other means for heating except lighting fires, as thousands of them gather on the road leading to the quarry from 3 am until sunrise.

Ahmed Abdel Aal displays the injury he suffered while working at the quarry. Although Abdel Aal’s injury needed about 20 stitches and he had to rest for three weeks at home, he still called it, like other quarry workers, a “small wound.” For workers, the term “injury” means amputation.

This is the most dangerous tool used in Minya quarries. It is unsafely located in an electric machine used to cut blocks of limestone. If it separates from the machine suddenly, which happens often, the tool can injure or kill a worker. The workers call it the “reaper of lives.”

A study prepared by Assiut University shows that north Minya quarry workers’ exposure to asbestosis through the inhalation of dust containing silica is higher than allowable rates.

Try to guess the age of this person. He is not a young man who came to work in the quarry; he is an 8-year-old child. (I asked many workers about their ages, expecting them to be in their 30s because of the wrinkles on their faces. To my surprise, the majority were in their 20s.)

A worker loading a vehicle with stones to be transferred from the quarry.

Electricity in the quarry area is the second most common cause of workers’ death. They often die of electric shock after touching an exposed wire. No ambulances reach this area and there are no hospitals in the eastern Nile region aside from one small private hospital. Workers say the hospital owner has agreed with the quarry owner not to file official complaints with the police about injuries that occur at the quarry. Workers also agree not to file official reports over the incidents, and in return the quarry owner pays for their treatment.

The Wadi El Nil Association for Protection of Quarry Workers tried to run a quarry where workers would get safer equipment and receive medical tests on a periodic basis, but the project failed due to financial constraints

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Mohamed Ali eddin

freelance photojournalist who interests in human rights and workers’ issues. Most of his photo stories reflect the life outside Cairo where people suffer from lack of public service. And for…

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