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Retired odd job worker now helps seniors in his estate
While the pioneer leaders were the original architects of Singapore, everyday heroes helped build society here. This is another story about such people in the series The Lives They Live.
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Rahimah Rashith
For more than 20 years, Li De Yan helped to build Singapore with his bare hands.
During the growing years of Singapore's construction sector in the 1970s and 80s, he mixed cement, laid bricks and built houses across the country.
