Name: Pandemic blocks Congo's disabled couriers
Uploaded: 2021-02-08T20:25:50.000Z
Duration: 1 min 38 s
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perched on a supersized tricycle and laden with mangoes.

Courier Claude Calvera Travis is a stretch of no man's land between Rhonda and Democratic Republic of Congo, but his disability he lost his right arm in a car accident when he was young entitles him to a permit to travel in and out of DRC tax free.

But an eight month border closure last year saw business dry up, threatening one of the only ways Calvera and around 200 other couriers can make an income.

I can't find work anywhere because I'm disabled.

Being a courier is vital for us because as long as we worked as couriers will never go hungry, we'll be able to feed our families.

Borders reopened in November, and Career A is back on the road.

But a new testing requirement means most, like Amani Alicia have not been able to benefit.

We know that the borders every open, but we have no one to help us or guide us through this problem.

Rhonda provides a limited number of free tests.

 Calvera and around 60 of its colleagues are the recipients for the remaining 140 couriers, many of whom, unless than $20 a day off $40 swab is too prohibitive accost, preventing them from paying their own way. 

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Pandemic blocks Congo's disabled couriers

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