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CAIRO - Father Alfons Marzou shuffles across a complex that is home to sisters for the Catholic Missionaries of Charity, whose nuns provide medical care and food to impoverished children living amid heaps of garbage. "Look around," Marzou says, motioning to the filthy streets outside the walls where families live among refuse for resale in what is known as Garbage City. Little has improved for these people in the year since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, Marzou says. "The situation is bad in so many ways."

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