As Venezuela's migrant crisis ripples across Latin American and the Caribbean, UNICEF warns that children are particularly vulnerable.
Holding her baby, Venezuelan migrant Jenifer Salas, 27, waits for traffic to come to a standstill so she can ask drivers for spare change in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, April 4, 2019. According to U.N. children's agency UNICEF, as a result of the Venezuela migrant crisis, 1.1 million children will need help across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2019.
About 1.1 million children will need access to services such as education, sanitation and safe drinking water across the region this year because of the Venezuelan migrant crisis, UNICEF says in a new report. The U.N. children’s agency said the projected figure is more than double the number of children who need such help right now, and it expressed concern about reports of discrimination and violence against Venezuelan children and families.
One of the migrants, Wilfran Garrido, 22, said he had worked at a hotel in Venezuela’s Carabobo state but left the country because of the deteriorating economic situation that made it hard to feed his family. He said he arrived in Bogota last year and was able to find a school for his 4-year-old son and a kindergarten for his 2-year-old. He and his wife also have an infant 4 months old.
Oriana Garcia, 24, was with her 6-year-old daughter at the Bogota intersection. Garcia said Venezuela wasn’t “livable” at the moment and, like many migrants, she blamed Maduro for the country’s problems.
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