If this were my factory, you think I'd leave it like this?
Make money off it but not spend a cent on it?
It's only been operational for 4 years, but look, it's like it's a hundred years old.
Look at its skeleton and foundations, they're rotting,
It could collapse in a second.
The rust beneath the ground.
These are the two basic materials, ammonia and acid, that we work on,
They go into the reactor together and act on eachother at different rates, from 1-3, to make our product.
This is the result of the materials we work with,
Look what it does to the concrete,
This is the pillar of the factory, it's considered the foundation of it.
When the raw material goes in it's supposed to result in this erosion, and bromination,
Anyone unaware who finds this happening to their factory, should secure it, paint it and look after it,
But it seems that as long as the factory is putting out the product at that end, that's it, they don't care.
The crisis of el Sayyad, Mr Ali el Sayyad, it's the owning family as a whole,
This family that owns it, they're from Mubarak's era,
And they're the same, looking out for their own interests,
They don't care if it all collapses or not, as long as they make their profit. He said it to me plainly, just like that.
This is the most important part of the factory, here,
The most important part in the world, it's considered.
That line up there connects to another factory and delivers the basic raw material we work with, ammonia,
When they discovered ammonia in another location, in Helwan,
And in other factories cheaper than here,
They started bringing it in pick up trucks,
Each truck carried 25 tonnes,
The truck would stop here, and I would connect this hose,
And pull all the stops here and on the truck, and start filling up our tank here,
This container is supposed to be for ammonia but really, it's for water!
It leaks from every part.
-And the hose exploded twice before, -Yes, and this tore as well,
Of course we panicked and ran like chickens, and God protected us, for the sake of our kids,
Same thing happened with this one, and this one,
Every time it happens, God saves us. But till when is God going to protect us?!
Until one of us dies, and then they think about how they might make things more secure for us.
These hoses are not meant for ammonia in the first places.
They inherit millions, and we inherit disease.
And when we come to demand our rights, people, we need this or that - they say it's none of their concern. We should just work and that's it.
Every day we stare death in the face,
Do we not deserve the risk compensation that they kept for themselves?
I just want those responsible to respond to us.
It's inhumane, what's being done to us,
If you brought a doctor to examine these people,
You'll find among them - forgive me for being so explicit - people who can't reproduce.
They've become sterile, because of the materials we're subjected to here.
Same thing at the Sobar factory,
If you go and check on the people there, you'll find their chest cavity is damaged.
It's sinful, inhumane, unfair what they are doing to us.
The periodic check-up I'm supposed to undergo every 6 months, that's legally required, I have to fill out a form.
It's supposed to certify that we have no diseases. So today, give me an examination,
Examine us today, and see what these people suffer from.
We work here as forced labor, that's just it.
We work here like it was in the old days, when the canal was built through the whip, we're working by the whip too.
I mean, man, give me the equipment and resources to protect myself,
No, nothing.
Next visit, I'll remove the dead trees and plant new ones,
The trees die, too, from the gases around them,
They plant them just so if anyone comes from the Ministry of Environment, they can show them that the plants aren't affected by the gases produced.
I can show you bills that prove that every month the trees are changed for 132,000 pounds.
Today I want to know that after 6 years when I inherit a disease, I'll be able to take care of myself,
There are those that inherit millions, and those that inherit disease.