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Sister Emmanuelle, a nun who lived for more than 20 years among scavengers in Cairo, died on Monday. She was 99. Sister Emanuelle has been compared to Mother Teresa. Both fought to defend the rights of the poor. She died in her sleep. She was living in a retirement home in Callian, France. She comes from Belgium. Sister Emmanuelle was moved with the lives of Cairo’s zabbaleen. Their garbage collectors. Through her works there, she established schools, clinics and gardens to serve the desolate children. Then she founded an association which now extends up to eight countries, from Lebanon to Burkina Faso. her work in Cairo was very crucial. and evidently, it is a great loss now that she is gone. Jewish and Muslim leaders in France expressed their sadness through emotional statements about her death. she will always be remembered as a woman of high convictions and also one of action.