Final Project

Poor people deserve to live

For my final project, I decided to talk about poor people and make a video showing how these people live  (Low-income economy) they have all rights to live, as we know in every country there are a lot of people who live in slums and homes that cannot be lived in because of the country's economy or because they were born in places like this. I will flashback and talk about my country which is Egypt, as we know I traveled to Egypt for something, but when I came, I saw many poor people who can not even buy food and resorted to taking money from people so that they can eat and drink. However, I have searched a lot because of the lack of comfort, food, and drinks. They said from the country's economy and prices.

Comparing to "black lives matter" but this call poor lives matter. In the article black lives matter the black people were oppressed by the whites and the whole country but in the other hand the poor people not have the right to chose anything. When I got to Egypt I saw a lot of slums and people who can't even eat, drink or do anything. The economy in Egypt justifies the poor people and just lives for rich people. 

There is no justice

1. an increase in inflation has led to an increase in food prices.

2. widespread inequality caused by government corruption. (like the government not giving the poor people the right to choose).

3. a lack of employment opportunities.

4. an inadequate education system.

The first problem is the increase in food prices how the people will live in a community like this not even the poor people also, the average people this because of opportunity in Egypt to have a good job with good money you have to be an actor or singer or something like this but poor citizen you have to work 24 hours to have 1500 pound per month this reminds me of the black people who do not have an opportunity to live like other.

Some percentage of high prices

  From my standpoint living in a country with a weak economy, is not the best way to live. According to “A Third of Population Lives in Poverty”, One in three Egyptians is living in poverty, the official statistics agency reported the report said 32.5% of Egyptians lived below the poverty line in 2018, up from 27.8% in 2015 and 16.7% in 2021. It said that 6.2% of Egyptians live in extreme poverty. 

In addition, Food becomes higher than last summer As prices increase, buyers are skimping: regulars who used to buy a kilogram of fruit are now content with half. He keeps the lights off between shoppers to save a few pounds.  There are also no lights on the butcher next door, who estimates that revenues have decreased by 20%. The country should make a good economy for all people, not only the rich everything that gets expensive and the poor could not even eat or but clothes. However as I read and did visit a lot of slums places I learned that they only have money for one day and also, the economy did not give them the right to live.

Finally, I decided to make a costume that resembles the clothes of  the poor, and this made from the cover of the pillow, Fabric, and red color with flower. I tried this costume on my little sister in solidarity with every Egyptian citizen who does not have the money to buy clothes. However I did like the article" Cottage Industry", by the artist J. Morgan Puett she produced a participatory installation that references the textile history of the Mass MoCA and her work with made of interconnected threads of ideas, each morphing into another in the form of research, clothing, dwellings, environments, installation. My design is also made from fabric and to present the low income economy. Also, I did some extra thing on her face to convey the idea into reality. Here is the custom.

Picture to support low income people

Resources

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2019/08/08/egypt-is-reforming-its-economy-but-poverty-is-rising

https://www.voanews.com/a/middle-east_egypt-third-population-lives-poverty/6172941.html

https://borgenproject.org/tag/poverty-in-egypt/

Video Description

Hello, everyone. Today, I'm going to talk about the low-income economy, where most poor people live. After doing a lot of research, I realized that 90% of the people couldn't live in a community that got higher and higher every second and not every day, which means that people who don't have money can't even eat, or drink, or buys clothes. I also interviewed people, but I didn't record all of our conversations. Watch this video to see some high prices and people. As a way to show solidarity with poor people, I did a fashion show with a cut dress.