Swiss bridge builder in Latin America
The Swiss are famed for their humanitarian work and their engineering prowess – Toni Rüttimann (Rooti-man) combines both qualities. For the past 15 years he has built around 160 bridges for impoverished and isolated communities, mainly in Latin America. But as Swiss Radio International’s Roy Probert found out, he was neither an aid worker, nor a civil engineer when he started out.
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