Life’s a chicken coop for Penan with kids in school

For the sake of their children’s education, a group of Penan parents have decided to hang up their hunting tools and set up home in an abandoned chicken coop.

Now, 106 people share the re-configured coop, where flimsy plywood riddled with holes separate each family’s living quarters, and they all share a common bathroom.

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