00:00This Egyptian designer is using industrial waste to make beds for Palestinian refugees.
00:05Ibrahim Abugendi owns the eco-friendly design company Mobikya.
00:09Recently, he's been creating what he calls Sostaletta beds using washing machine drums and car tires.
00:15The beds cost $70 plus about another $30 to add a mattress.
00:19But Abugendi has partnered with non-governmental organizations
00:22to cover the beds' costs for families in need, including displaced Palestinians.
00:26Heva Yassin came to Egypt from Gaza.
00:28She says, when I arrived in Egypt, we wanted to get a house and furnish it from zero,
00:32and as everybody knows, 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
00:41and turning it into furniture.
00:42I honestly liked the idea because the cost will be less
00:45and it will look beautiful with a different and new thing.
00:48Abugendi 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.
00:56In 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.
