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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.

  • E can't find work here at the border.

  • 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.

  • Don't know what to do anymore.

  • We don't know what will happen to us.

  • 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.

perched on a supersized tricycle and laden with mangoes.

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