India, Oct. 8 -- Can a material once dismissed as the "poor man's timber" be reframed as a sustainable solution to counter deforestation? A group of NUS College students have set in motion a mindset shift towards bamboo in the Philippines with a two-year project that engaged Filipino youths in hands-on workshops to demonstrate the plant's potential.
The group of seven students, dubbed Team Bayanihan, worked with Grow School Philippines to design and lead a series of Bamboo for the Future workshops that has reached more than 100 youths. Through activities such as weaving coasters and constructing catapults, the workshops aimed to shift perceptions of bamboo as a low-cost material to a sustainable and economically promising alternative.
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