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SINGAPORE - Some of her peers shunned her, while customers wondered if she was a “problem” child — all because Ms Elizabeth Huang, then 22, was working as a hawker.
Ms Huang, who was running a Western food stall at Redhill Lane Market, recalled a conversation between two women: “One of them actually said, ‘Maybe this little girl got problem. Maybe this little girl didn’t study a lot. That’s why she’s in the market’.”
“It’s not nice when you judge people like that,” said Ms Huang. The 24-year-old is one of eight young hawkers featured in Youth Hawkerprise, an initiative by four undergraduates to encourage youth to enter the hawker business.
She hopes to share her experience and challenge stereotypes faced by hawkers, especially young hawkers.
Via Olive Ventures
