Deze man is een vriend van mijn, maar door een ongeluk liggen zijn onderbenen eraf.
Ari is his name. I met him as a taxi driver (tuk tuk 3 wheeler) at the Hongqiao metro station in Shanghai.
I moved back to The Netherlands in 2017 but still have weekIy video calls using Weixin/Wechat.
We spent years together at the station and made short taxi rides to his friends to eat there, or just to be at Hongqioao station to socialize. He sleeps in a freight container under the metro station in poor conditions.
His taxi is broken and that's his only way of making a living.
He needs his three-wheel taxi but can not pay for it since his earnings are never enough to make it throug the week. He still keeps dependent on generous restaurant owners who will give a free meal to him.