Whether wiring up the electricity grid or ensuring that the chickens had drinking water, no task proved too menial when Ms Lam Shu Mei set up Rwanda's first modern poultry farm in 2014.
But being hands-on was a big part of the former advertising industry employee's plan to get on top of what looked like a daunting challenge.
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