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By Mauro Galluzzo
image captionSuhaib started fixing phones at school
What would you do if your smartphone was damaged or stopped working? Take it to a repair shop or perhaps upgrade to a new one?
Not Suhaib. Unable to afford the repair cost he ordered a replacement screen, watched an online tutorial and fixed it himself. It took me around two hours. I was really nervous, says Suhaib (he prefers to keep his surname private).
It wasn t long before he became the person to go to at his Canadian school if you had a broken phone. I was the guy fixing phones in class, he says.
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Last modified on Tue 27 Apr 2021 08.02 EDT
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