Egyptian Designer Builds Beds for Palestinian Refugees Using Industrial Waste.mp4

Egyptian designer Ibrahim Abougendy is using industrial waste to make beds for Palestinian refugees. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.

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00:00This Egyptian designer is using industrial waste to make beds for Palestinian refugees.

00:05Ibrahim Abu Ghendi owns the eco-friendly design company Mobikya.

00:09Recently he's been creating what he calls sosteleta beds using washing machine drums

00:13and car tires.

00:15The beds cost $70 plus about another $30 to add a mattress.

00:19But Abu Ghendi has partnered with non-governmental organizations to cover the beds' costs for

00:23families in need, including displaced Palestinians.

00:26Heba Yassin came to Egypt from Gaza.

00:29She says,

00:30When I arrived in Egypt we wanted to get a house and furnish it from zero and as everybody

00:33knows prices are so high and the cost of furniture is very high.

00:37So by chance I saw on social media a page focused on recycling industrial waste and turning it

00:41into furniture.

00:42I honestly liked the idea because the cost will be less and it will look beautiful with

00:46a different and new thing.

00:48Abu Ghendi says he is an architect and ultimately wants to design eco-friendly buildings.

00:52But for now he's doing what he can to address an acute crisis.

00:55In May, Reuters reported that the Palestinian ambassador in Cairo said that as many as 100,000

01:01Gazans had fled to Egypt since the start of the war with Israel in October.

01:04June 29 year 21 year July 2020.