The Egyptian government's May 2009 decision to cull the country's entire pig population - ostensibly to stem the spread of H1N1 influenza - has hit the livelihoods of 70,000 former pig farmers and unofficial rubbish collectors and their families in the Cairo area. [see: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=86742] This slideshow depicts children, former pig farmers and garbage collectors from the al-Muqattem suberb of Cairo.