Background:
Six million Venezuelans have fled in recent years, since their country’s economy and health system collapsed. This is the largest migration crisis in the world right now. Women are at the most risk as the rape of migrants has increased by 60% since the pandemic began. Of the six million Venezuelans who have left their country since 2013, nearly 2.5 million live in Colombia, which shares a 2,200km border with Venezuela, and which has in many respects presented itself as a welcoming neighbor. About 295,000 undocumented Venezuelans are in Colombia.
Impact in Numbers
Cucuta Medical Clinic – Opened June 2022
- 936 patients treated as of Oct. 31, 2022
- including 600 women, 80 of them pregnant
- 229 boys and girls
- 107 men
- 1723 medical services provided
- 796 medical treatments
- 148 pap smears (cervical cytology)
- 89 gynecology exams
- 673 distributions of medicine
- countless general medical consultations
Cucuta Wellness Tent – Opened October 2022
- 11 orientation sessions presented covering:
- rights and benefits for migrants under Temporary Protection legal status (Estatuto de Protección – EPS)
- processing of the Temporary Protection Permit
- family planning
- 10 workshops carried out on the following topics:
- Migration reality: concepts and life stories.
- “If he mistreats you, he doesn’t love you”
- Right to health for migrants in Colombia.
- Busting myths about feeding in pregnant women.
- “Now I am a new woman”
- 70 participants attended the Workshops
- 60 women and 10 men
- Aged: between 15 and 66 years old