{"id":24877,"date":"2018-12-09T21:23:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T21:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24877"},"modified":"2018-12-09T21:23:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T21:23:19","slug":"venezuelan-familiesa-seek-a-better-life-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24877","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan families\u00c2\u00a0seek a better life abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Almost three million people have fled Venezuela over the past three years\u00a0to escape poverty, food insecurity and violence, according to the latest UN<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Latin American country\u2019s economy has collapsed and inflation is\u00a0predicted by the\u00a0International Monetary Fund<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to reach 1,000,000 percent before the end of this year.<\/p>\n

“Every day is a struggle not just for us but for the children. I hope that my children will be allowed to study and create a future for themselves off the street. At the moment they don’t even have clothes to wear,” said Olivia, who is homeless with four children.<\/p>\n

<\/em>Colombia hosts the largest number of Venezuelan migrants – more than one million have arrived since 2015 –\u00a0in a crisis likened in scale to that of the war in Syria by the UN human rights body.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

“On the third day the stress of having left our home in Venezuela caused me to have a heart attack,” said Stefanie, 55, who is travelling with her 10-year-old grandson.<\/p>\n

<\/em>Estimates suggest more than 350,000 children<\/a><\/span>\u00a0have made the dangerous crossing to Colombia, facing\u00a0grave risks such as\u00a0trafficking and recruitment by armed groups and organised criminal gangs.<\/p>\n

Save the Children\u00a0Country Director Maria Martinez said: “Mothers do not have food to feed their children … or a place to call home. Mothers are giving birth on the streets.<\/p>\n

“The scale and complexity of this crisis is unprecedented and we currently have a huge funding gap,” Martinez said.<\/p>\n

Names changed to protect identity<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/em>This photo gallery was provided by<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/span>Save the Children\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost three million people have fled Venezuela over the past three years\u00a0to escape poverty, food insecurity and violence, according to the latest UN\u00a0statistics. The Latin American country\u2019s economy has collapsed and inflation is\u00a0predicted by the\u00a0International Monetary Fund\u00a0to reach 1,000,000 percent before the end of this year. “Every day is a struggle not just for us…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}