Outdoor Shoeshiner Mack Compton, 69, waits between customers at his shoeshine stand on West 42nd Street during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., May 26, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

A shoeshiner is pictured outside the office of the Free Confederation of Chadian Workers (CLTT) in N'djamena, Chad April 26, 2021. Picture taken April 26, 2021. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

A shoeshine worker works next to a sign reading 'No more bandits! Vote to throw them out!' in downtown Santiago, Chile March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

A shoeshiner looks at his phone while supervising an unoccupied shoeshine station inside the Washington Mariott Hotel, as Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a State of Emergency due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Washington, U.S., March 16, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

A shoeshiner works cleaning a man's shoes on the street in Valparaiso, Chile April 23, 2019. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido

A shoeshiner works cleaning a woman's shoes on the street in Valparaiso, Chile April 23, 2019. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido

A shoeshiner works cleaning a man's shoes on the street in Valparaiso, Chile April 23, 2019. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido

A shoeshiner works cleaning a woman's shoes on the street in Valparaiso, Chile April 23, 2019. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido

A shoeshiner works cleaning a man's shoes on the street in Valparaiso, Chile April 23, 2019. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido

Homeless shoeshiners attend the "Good Samaritan" Christmas campaign in La Paz, Bolivia, December 28, 2018. REUTERS/David Mercado

Shoeshine boys hold gifts during Christmas season in La Paz, Bolivia, December 21, 2018. REUTERS/David Mercado

A shoeshine man with a child rest near the Murillo square in La Paz, Bolivia, September 28, 2018. REUTERS/David Mercado

A masked shoeshine man rests at the Murillo square in La Paz, Bolivia, September 24, 2018. REUTERS/David Mercado TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A masked shoeshine man rests at the Murillo square in La Paz, Bolivia, September 24, 2018. REUTERS/David Mercado

A shoeshiner waits for clients as a homeless man sleeps on the sidewalk in Buenos Aires' financial district, Argentina, September 3, 2018. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci

A shoeshine man waits for clients in front of a closed cafeteria in Asmara, Eritrea July 21, 2018. Picture taken July 21, 2018. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Muharrem Ince, main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) candidate in the June 24 presidential snap election, poses with a shoeshiner during an election campaign in Istanbul, Turkey May 24, 2018. REUTERS/Huseyin aldemir

Muharrem Ince, main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) candidate in the June 24 presidential snap election, poses with a shoeshiner during an election campaign in Istanbul, Turkey May 24, 2018. REUTERS/Huseyin aldemir

A shoeshiner polishes a shoe in Damascus, Syria April 22, 2018. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho

A shoeshiner is seen in Damascus, Syria April 14, 2018. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho

Street shoeshiners work near a cathedral in Tegucigalpa, Honduras December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Henry Romero

A shoeshiner protects himself from tear gas while members of Peru's teachers union clash with police during a national strike to demand a salary increase and better working conditions in Lima, Peru, August 24, 2017. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A shoeshiner protects himself from tear gas while members of Peru's teachers union clash with police during a national strike to demand a salary increase and better working conditions in Lima, Peru, August 24, 2017. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo

A shoeshiner protects himself from tear gas while members of Peru's teachers union clash with police during a national strike to demand a salary increase and better working conditions in Lima, Peru, August 24, 2017. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo

Shoeshiners check a cellphone as they wait for customers at a Tap-tap stop in Port-au-Prince, Haiti June 14, 2017. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares

Rosalina Dallago, 52, poses for a photograph at her shoeshine shop, Sciuscia Chic, in Rome, Italy, February 24, 2017. Former model Dallago owns three shoeshine shops. One of her shops is a tiny space on a narrow alleyway and is frequented mostly by lawmakers from the House of Parliament just around the corner. Her most loyal customers are legislators who stop by early in the morning on their way in. "Sciuscia" is the fractured phonetic pronunciation that poor street urchins in Naples would shout out to U.S. soldiers after World War Two to ask them if they wanted their shoes shined. "My customers see me as a professional before they see me as a woman," said Dallago. "Mothers should instil a sense of gender equality in their sons." REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi SEARCH "WOMEN WORK" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

A shoeshiner waits for customers next to electoral posters along a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 14, 2016. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares

Shoeshiners attend to a customer as a fence at a park is seen as part of security measures in downtown ahead of a visit from Cuba's President Raul Castro, in Merida, Mexico, November 5, 2015. Castro will meet his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto during a three-day state visit on November 5-7, in the Yucatan capital city of Merida. REUTER/Henry Romero

A man dressed as a Ghostbuster has his shoes shined at New York Comic Con in Manhattan, New York, October 8, 2015. The event draws thousands of costumed fans, panels of pop culture luminaries and features a sprawling floor of vendors in a space equivalent to more than three football fields at the Jacob Javits Convention Center on Manhattan's West side. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Shoeshiners attend to customers along a street in Santiago de Cuba September 19, 2015. The Obama administration announced wide-ranging new rules on Friday to ease trade, travel and investment restrictions with Cuba, the latest effort to chip away at the long-standing U.S. economic embargo amid a diplomatic thaw between the two former Cold War foes. The announcement came just as Pope Francis, who played an instrumental role in the diplomatic opening late last year, prepares to visit Cuba this weekend before heading to the United States next week. The Vatican has long condemned the embargo against Cuba. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A man gets his shoes shined near posters of candidates running for legislative elections in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, August 7, 2015. After years of false starts and blown deadlines, Haitians are set to vote in the first legislative elections in more than three years on Sunday in a test of stability for the country, an impoverished Caribbean nation with a history of coups. More than 1,800 candidates from dozens of parties are running, and preliminary results are expected in six to 10 days. Runoffs are scheduled for October 25, the same day as the first round of presidential voting. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares

A shoeshiner waits for clients in downtown San Salvador January 29, 2015. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas (EL SALVADOR - Tags: SOCIETY)

Shoeshine boys chat at Murillo Square, where a Christmas tree is displayed, in La Paz, December 13, 2014. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: SOCIETY)

A shoeshine boy clean the boots of a policeman waiting to patrol with his compatriots, outside Congress in Lima, September 2, 2014. REUTERS/ Mariana Bazo (PERU - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY CRIME LAW)

A man polishes a client's shoe in San Jose August 14, 2014. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate (COSTA RICA - Tags: SOCIETY)

A shoeshiner reads a newspaper while waiting for customers to clean their shoes at Zocalo Square in Mexico City August 7, 2014. The Metropolitan Cathedral is pictured in the background. REUTERS/Henry Romero (MEXICO - Tags: SOCIETY)

A shoe-shiner cleans the boots of a soldier before Colombia's Independence Day Parade in Bogota, July 20, 2014. Colombia commemorates the 204th anniversary of its independence from Spain on July 20. REUTERS/John Vizcaino (COLOMBIA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY ANNIVERSARY SOCIETY)

A shoe-shiner waits for customers on the footpath in central Belo Horizonte July 7 2014. REUTERS/David Gray (BRAZIL - Tags: SOCIETY)

A customer drinks a bottle of water as his shoes are polished by a shoe shiner on a street in downtown Sao Paulo April 8, 2014. REUTERS/Nacho Doce (BRAZIL - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Bolivians walk past graffiti of shoeshine boys in the centre of La Paz January 27, 2014. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: SOCIETY)

A boy working as a shoe shiner is seen in La Paz, January 8, 2014. Bolivia's national legislature is currently debating a new law which would make it illegal for children to start working before the age of 14, though an exception would be incorporated, allowing 12 and 13-year-olds to work with special permission. On Wednesday, representatives from Bolivia's Union of Child and Adolescent Workers (UNATsBO) entered this debate, opposing any legally imposed age limits. According to a 2008 study on child labour, conducted by the Bolivian National Institute of Statistics, 28 percent of the country's population between 5 and 17 years old is involved in "labour activities". Picture taken January 8. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: POLITICS LAW BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)

A man has his shoes shined in downtown Lisbon November 7, 2013. Portugal's jobless rate fell for the second consecutive quarter in the three months that ended in September and were also lower than a year ago, data showed on Thursday, a hopeful sign for one of the euro zone's bailed-out economies. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante (PORTUGAL - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)

Men get their shoes shined at the annual Skybridge Alternatives Conference in Las Vegas May 8, 2013. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)

A shoeshiner sits next to a wall plastered with election campaign posters in Kibera slum in the capital Nairobi February 28, 2013. Kenya will hold its general elections on March 4. REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS)

A shoe shiner waits for costumers outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City February 11, 2013. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo (MEXICO - Tags: SOCIETY)

A worker waits for customers to shine shoes and boots at the entrance of Grand Central Station in New York, February 2, 2013. Grand Central Terminal, the doyenne of American train stations, is celebrating its 100th birthday. Opened on February 2, 1913, the iconic New York landmark with its Beaux-Arts facade is an architectural gem, and still one of America's greatest transportation hubs. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (UNITED STATES - Tags: ANNIVERSARY TRANSPORT)

A commuter enjoys a shoe shine at Grand Central Terminal while reading a newspaper showing Barack Obama winning the U.S. presidential election, in New York November 7, 2012. Growing optimism about the economy and a big turnout of the core Democratic coalition sealed President Barack Obama's re-election victory over Republican challenger Mitt Romney on Wednesday. REUTERS/Chip East (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS USA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ELECTIONS MEDIA)

A customer reads a newspaper as a shoe-shiner cleans his shoes in downtown Lisbon August 14, 2012. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante (PORTUGAL - Tags: SOCIETY)

A man has his shoes shined in central Madrid February 10, 2012. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (SPAIN - Tags: SOCIETY)

A shoe shine man sits in front of a closed shop in central Athens February 8, 2012. Greek parties will try again on Wednesday to agree a reform deal in return for a new international rescue to avoid a chaotic default, after delays prompted some EU leaders to warn that the euro zone can live without Athens. REUTERS/John Kolesidis (GREECE - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)

A pedestrian passes a man sat waiting at a shoe shine stall in the City of London January 20, 2012. Britain's economy is broadly flat and growth is likely to be volatile for much of 2012, Bank of England policymaker Ben Broadbent was quoted as saying on Friday. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS EMPLOYMENT)

A man gets a shoeshine next to a kiosk displaying a Spanish flag with a bull on it in downtown Madrid November 16, 2011. The Spanish general elections will be held on November 20. Voter anger over Spain's economic plight is certain to sweep the centre-right People's Party to an election victory on Sunday, giving it a resounding mandate to slash public spending and try to rescue the country from the euro zone crisis. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY ELECTIONS)

A security guard has his shoes cleaned along an empty corridor at the Roosevelt Hospital in Guatemala City November 15, 2011. Members of the hospital's union closed the hospital's main entrance, keeping only the accident and emergency section open to patients, as they protested what they said was the Ministry of Health's failure to provide adequate medicine and hospital supplies. The sign on the wall reads, "All services are free". REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (GUATEMALA - Tags: HEALTH CIVIL UNREST) )

A shoeshine boy cleans the shoes of Swiss Minister of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications Doris Leuthard (L) during an exhibition tour after the opening of the transport.ch exhibition in Bern November 10, 2011. The utility vehicle exhibition transport.ch is open from November 10, till November 13, 2011. REUTERS/Pascal Lauener (SWITZERLAND - Tags: POLITICS)

A shoeshine boy cleans the shoes of Swiss Minister of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications Doris Leuthard (L) during an exhibition tour after the opening of the transport.ch exhibition in Bern November 10, 2011. The utility vehicle exhibition transport.ch is open from November 10, till November 13, 2011. REUTERS/Pascal Lauener (SWITZERLAND - Tags: POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Man shines his shoes accompanied by others resting in front of a closed shop in central Lisbon August 11, 2011. Some $4 trillion has been wiped off the value of world stocks this month on concerns the euro zone debt crisis is spreading to Italy and Spain and hurting Europe's banking system, and the global economy is falling into recession. The sum wiped off the MSCI All-Country World Index - about one seventh of its value - is almost equivalent to the size of combined economies of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece.
REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro (PORTUGAL - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)

Men shine clients' shoes in front of Brazil's BM&FBovespa stock exchange in Sao Paulo August 4, 2011. The words on their uniforms read "BM&FBovespa stock exchange". REUTERS/Nacho Doce (BRAZIL - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)

A customer gives instructions to a shoe-shiner at Rossio square in Lisbon July 6, 2011. The downgrading of freshly bailed-out Portugal's credit rating to "junk" shocked financial markets on Wednesday and cast new doubt on European efforts to rescue distressed euro zone states without debt restructuring.
REUTERS/Rafael Marchante (PORTUGAL - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS)

A man sits at his shoe-shine stall as his sleeping child (R) is covered with the Egyptian national flag at Tahrir square in Cairo, May 27, 2011. Thousands of Egyptians converged on Cairo's Tahrir square on Friday in what organisers called a "second revolution" to push for deeper reforms and a speedy trial for ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his former aides. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A Pashtun man shines shoes by the roadside in the outskirts of Peshawar April 13, 2011. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY)