The highest concentration of Venezuelan migrants is in Colombia, where more than 1.8 million of them have relocated.You can help Venezuelans by remembering them in prayer and helping World Vision meet their needs.Asylum seekers can be refugees or migrants. About 5 million Venezuelans have left the country to find work, food, better healthcare, and stability.Get breaking disaster news in your inbox!World Vision provides food vouchers to Venezuelan migrants. The volunteer-run organization sometimes feeds 1,000 people a day. The burns unit is filled with bandaged toddlers who have stumbled into wood fires or been burned by kerosene lamps – increasingly common sources of fuel and light.“If a medical school faculty member earns $20 a month, what can you expect?”She said: “He says in his broadcasts that nothing’s going on: that everything’s fine; that there is medicine; that there are doctors; that I-don’t-know-how-many-millions are being invested in healthcare. (©2019 World Vision/photo by Jon Warren) World Vision staff member Mayerly Sanchez held the woman's baby while Jorge Alejandro Castaneda, a World Vision response manager, assisted the woman and called for help. “This is what happens when you can’t make enough money to feed your family. And because I still believe that something will happen, that Venezuela will change, and that all this will pass.”Padilla, 45, whose kidneys failed from hypertension, said she had spent three years on a transplant list but was now waiting to die since a lack of doctors and equipment meant operations were not possible: “My life is in danger in Venezuela.”“We know the reality. For neighboring states, politically acceptable alternatives appear to be few. (©2019 World Vision/photo by Jon Warren)A woman fainted from hunger about a block from a free health clinic for Venezuelan migrants. Notes: An international dollar would buy in the cited country an amount of goods and services comparable to what a U.S. dollar would buy in the United States. (©2019 World Vision/photo by Jon Warren)Most Venezuelans are fleeing to neighboring countries. When the border is open, 35,000 to 45,000 people are estimated to cross over daily, most for work or to attend school. Of the 5 million people who have left Venezuela, at least 4.2 million have remained in Latin America and the Caribbean.
World Vision has maintained a multi-country response to the Venezuela migrant crisis since January 2019. Venezuelan crisis was slower to develop than in the majority of Latin American countries. (©2019 World Vision/photo by Jon Warren)© 2020 World Vision, Inc. All rights reserved.We are proud to be reviewed and held accountable by these independent third-party organizations:A group of Venezuelan migrants walks together for safety. But I know I have neighbours in this hospital, and cousins. (©2019 World Vision/photo by Jon Warren)World Vision Child-Friendly Space coordinator, Henry Sandoval, helps Sofia, 5, and other kids with their coloring at the World Vision Child-Friendly-Space in their El Talento neighborhood in Cucuta, Colombia. Watch Queue Queue We’ve reached about 250,000 people through programs focused on child protection, education, and food security and livelihoods in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.The Venezuela crisis consists mostly of migrants and some refugees fleeing threats of violence, but hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have received legal asylum in their new host countries.Happy children and their parents leave the Child-Friendly Space in the El Talento neighborhood of Cucuta, Colombia, where about 80% of the population are Venezuelan migrants. She was escorted back to the clinic where the staff gave her food and fluids and let her rest. Venezuela’s Economic Crisis: Issues for Congress Congressional Research Service 2 Figure 1. Venezuela is in a complete humanitarian emergency.”“Wherever she went this girl was an explosion of love,” says her father, Misael.A visit to the hospital where Victoria Martínez spent her final days suggests otherwise.Hours later, Victoria had died: yet another victim of the political and economic tsunami engulfing what was once one of Latin America’s most developed nations.In the paediatric ward upstairs, mothers nurse emaciated babies – socks dangling from their tiny ankles, bones protruding through their flesh – who cannot be hydrated because the hospital cannot even provide a catheter.He added: “I’m going to fight because I believe justice will come. The next leg of their journey will be the most difficult. Venezuelans emerge from the woods to ford the Tachira River and cross the border illegally from Venezuela into Colombia near Cúcuta. You have to leave any way you can,” says the group leader.
I have friends who go to this hospital because they have nowhere else to go and so this is my struggle.” Venezuela's ongoing crisis has brought the Latin American country to the forefront of international headlines.