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SMU student learns how way of life affects way of thinking
She spends two months helping villagers set up bamboo furniture business to be self-sufficient
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Ms Janice Chiang with some Kenyan and Singaporean interns during her time with Coastal Bamboo & Coir Development Company.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF JANICE CHIANG
Cheryl Tee
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When Ms Janice Chiang was in a village near Mombasa, Kenya, for her summer internship, she was taken aback by how much her thinking differed from the locals'.
A Kenyan university student in her team was tagged as a spy by the other village boys and, to stay safe, had to move into his mother's home.
