Mapuranga spends most of his time at home, tending a tiny vegetable garden that is the family's main source of food. His mother ekes out a living traveling to South Africa to sell things like stone carvings and brooms on the streets, a trade also badly hit by the pandemic.
Mapuranga amara umwanya munini mu rugo, yita ku busitani buto bw'imboga aribwo kuko ariho akura ibyo kurya  by'umuryango. Nyina yagiye gushakisha imibereho yerekeza muri Afrika yepfo gucuruza ibintu harimo imitako hamwe na sima, ubucuruzi nabwo bwibasiwe n'icyorezo.