Trolleys bring relief for 'mule women'

CEUTA, Spain - It's a form of hard labor that has provoked an outcry - Moroccan women bent double, overburdened by goods approaching or exceeding their own body weight.

For years, thousands of such porters have crossed the border every day into Ceuta, a Spanish enclave perched on the northernmost tip of Morocco.

But now an initiative aims to ease the burden by encouraging the women - who are paid to exploit an anomaly in Moroccan law that exempts items carried by pedestrians from duties - to use trolleys.