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She founded the startup company Gjenge Makers in order to recycle plastic waste into bricks. She used her own experience of design thinking when establishing the Gjenge Makers foundation. She was heavily inspired to set up Gjenge Makers after witnessing the plastic bags being untidily scattered along
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She also confronted few challenges as her neighbors complained about the noisy machine which she utilized for her efforts. Matee also stopped associating with her friends for a year, and it was a brief stop in her social life while she was determined to carry her mission. She won a scholarship to
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