Dr. Iskander's contributions include her notable work with the zabbaleen or garbage collectors, in Egypt, where she established an informal recycling school in 1982 to teach children basic literacy, health and hygiene[REF] - a project for which she received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1994 [REF].
The know-how of waste management in Manshiyat Naser on the outskirts of Cairo was transferred to the Egyptian tourist towns of Dahab and Nuweiba in 1997,[REF] when Kamel cooperated with social entrepreneur Sherif El-Ghamrawy - eco-lodge owner and founder of environmental protection organization "Hemaya" (Arabic for "Protection") [REF].