In this April 14, 2015 photo, a man loads sugarcane onto a rail car in Abu al-Nasr, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo. Salama Osman's day begins before the tenants of his Cairo apartment building wake and ends only after the last returns home at night, a work week without weekends. Except this week as he is on one of his two trips a year back home. “There are no jobs” here in Abu al-Nasr, Salama said of his village home, where most rely on farming to make a living. “There is not much money in (harvesting) sugarcanes”. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this April 23, 2015 photo, Salama Osman, left, a migrant worker, rides a train back to his job as a "bawaab" or doorkeeper in a Cairo apartment building, near his home village of Abu al-Nasr, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo. Osman, 46, is returning from one of his two trips a year back home. The money he makes in Cairo can support his wife, Amira, and his four children, forcing him to continue his life in the big city. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this April 13, 2015 photo, Salama Osman, works on his small plot of land in front of his family house where they grow vegetables, as he talks with his wife Amira in the village of Abu al-Nasr, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo. Osman, 46, is on one of his two trips a year back home where he can relax with his family, a rare respite from his hectic job back in the always-bustling Egyptian capital. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this Tuesday, April 21, 2015 photo, Salama Osman leads his buffalo to a field to feed as his son Hamdy, 13, watches in the village of Abu al-Nasr, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo. Osman, 46, is on one of his two trips a year back home where he can relax with his family, a rare respite from his hectic job back in the always-bustling Egyptian capital. The money he makes in Cairo can support all of his family, forcing him to continue his life in the big city. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this Tuesday, April 28, 2015 photo, Salama Osman, left, eats breakfast with Hagag Mohammed, a fellow doorman in his neighborhood, in the foyer to the apartment building where he works in Cairo, Egypt. Osman speaks every day by phone to his wife and children back in southern village of Abu Al-Nasr, but the money he makes in Cairo can support his wife, Amira, and his four children, forcing him to continue his migrant life in the big city. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this April 17, 2015 photo, clay containers of water are installed for pedestrians to drink on the side of a street in about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo. This village, just south of the Temple of Horus and a small step pyramid, is where Salama Osman 46, grew up but he now works as a “bawaab”, one of likely tens of thousands of migrant workers across Cairo who function as doormen, car parkers, errand runners, night watchmen, gardeners and just about anything. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this April 12, 2015 photo, Sayed Ahmed Abdoh poles his boat to check his fish traps in the Nile River, near Abu al-Nasr village, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt. Abdoh caught some 20 fish this day and gave them to his friend, Salama Osman, a migrant worker in a Cairo apartment building, to celebrate his biannual return to their village. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this Tuesday, April 14, 2015 photo, women and men line up separately as they wait outside to buy bread at a bakery in a village near Abu al-Nasr, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo. Amira, the wife of Salama Osman who works in Cairo without his family most of the year, leaves her village house shortly after dawn everyday to buy bread at the shop. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this Friday, April 17, 2015 photo, Salama Osman, a migrant worker in Cairo, plays with his children Sameh, 5 1/2, left, and Zainab, 10, during a biannual trip back home in Abu al-Nasr, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo. Osman, 46, is on one of his two trips a year back home where he can relax with his family, a rare respite from his hectic job back in the always-bustling Egyptian capital. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this Friday, April 17, 2015 photo, Amira, wife of Salama Osman, and her daughter Ghada, talk about music playing on their cell phones while resting on the family plot of land, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo. Osman, 46, is on one of his two trips a year back home to the village, a rare respite from his hectic job back in the always-bustling Egyptian capital. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this April 25, 2015 photo, Salama Osman waits for water to be boiled to make tea before going to bed in his room, where he lives under the emergency stairs in the back of an apartment building where he works, in Cairo, Egypt. Osman is a “bawaab”, one of likely tens of thousands of migrant workers across Cairo who function as doormen, car parkers, errand runners, night watchmen, gardeners and just about anything. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this Monday, April 13, 2015 photo, Salama Osman, who works as a doorman in Cairo, celebrates the national holiday of Sham el-Nessim with his his children by having lunch on the banks of the Nile near his home village of Abu al-Nasr, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo. The holiday marks the arrival of spring, an Egyptian tradition practiced since the days of the Pharaohs. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this Sunday, April 12, 2015 photo, Salama Osman buys fish from a fisherman as his daughter Zainab watches another returning with his catch, in a branch of the Nile River near Abu al-Nasr, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this April 16, 2015 photo, villagers chat after a day working on a farm in Abu al-Nasr village, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo. This village, just south of the Temple of Horus and a small step pyramid, is where Salama Osman grew up. It's a peaceful existence, far different from the noise and cramped life Osman lives in Cairo. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this Wednesday, April 15, 2015 photo, a man carries sugarcane on a donkey cart, in Abu al-Nasr village, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt. Salama Osman's day begins before the tenants of his Cairo apartment building wake and ends only after the last returns home at night, a work week without weekends. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this Friday, April 10, 2015 photo, Salama Osman, right, gives his children gifts he has brought from Cairo after he arrives to his family's home in Abu al-Nasr, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this Friday, April 17, 2015 photo, Salama Osman, left, chats with his fisherman friend, Sayed Ahmed Abdoh, outside his home in Abu al-Nasr, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)

In this Friday, May 1, 2015 photo, Salama Osman, a migrant from a southern village, cleans the entrance of his apartment building where he works in Cairo, Egypt. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)