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Chances for development through cooperation with TU Berlin

Students design strategies for upgrading of informal areas in Greater Cairo

“What are the needs of the residents of Ezbet el-Nasr? What are the most pressing problems facing the community and how could they be addressed?” These are questions the Governor of Cairo has to ask himself when searching for an adequate intervention strategy for developing Ezbet al-Nasr, one of the numerous informal areas in Greater Cairo.

In only ten working days, the 18 students of TU Berlin and their two tutors had to accomplish exactly this challenging task: get to know the intervention area, analyse it and develop concrete and realistic implementable strategies for dealing with this area.

Together with community members the students are doing participatory mapping of the area’s problems

Together with community members the students are doing participatory mapping of the area’s problems

 

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