U4C Center Impact Program
Hope For Venezuelan Refugees
- Venezuela Humanitarian Response
United4Change Center (U4C) is proud to join the Hope For Venezuelan Refugees Project, a humanitarian project responding to the food insecurity affecting thousands of Venezuelan refugees, migrants, and walkers “caminantes” in Colombia led by Rotarian Cristal Montañéz Baylor from the Rotary e-Club of Houston. Entire families continue to flee Venezuela to escape violence, lack of job opportunities, food scarcity, lack of medicine, and essential services. The Venezuelan refugee exodus has become one of the biggest crises in the hemisphere and the world (UNHCR), second only to Syria.
The Challenge:
Access to food continues to be a priority for Venezuelan refugees, migrants, and walkers “caminantes” in Colombia. Every day, thousands of Venezuelan children, women, and men are forced to flee their country due to the devastating economic and humanitarian crisis resulting in the largest exodus in Latin America’s recent history and one of the world’s largest external displacements. Without money to buy food or medicines, most Venezuelans suffer from severe hunger, and many are dying from preventable diseases and malnutrition. The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the food insecurity among vulnerable Venezuelans. Children, women, the elderly, and the sick are the most affected by this complex humanitarian emergency. The challenge and the number one priority to save lives, is to ensure that Venezuelans have access to food. The World Food Program (WFP) of the United Nations stated, “the primary drivers for migration are the lack of access to food, employment, medicine, and functioning health services.”
The Initiative:
The Hope For Venezuelan Refugees is a humanitarian project created to help alleviate hunger affecting thousands of vulnerable Venezuelan refugees, migrants, walkers “caminantes,” and Colombian returnees on the Cúcuta-Pamplona route. U4C is proud to join the Hope For Venezuelan Refugees team to support the continuation of the Project and the Venezuelan refugees fundamental human right of access to food.
The Impact:
Every day, Venezuelan families cross Colombia on foot, fleeing crisis with little more than hope. Hope For Venezuelan Refugees and U4C help make sure each caminante finds a warm meal along the way. Together, we’ve served 116,560 hot meals to 92,529 people on the move, comfort and dignity when they’re needed most.
The Impact
How You Can Help
The Hope For Venezuelan Refugees continues alleviating hunger affecting Venezuelan refugees, migrants, and walkers “caminantes” in-transit through the Cúcuta-Pamplona humanitarian route. Our volunteers on the ground are working tirelessly to respond to this emergency; however, our efforts are very limited, and a larger-scale intervention is urgently needed due to the magnitude of the crisis.
We cannot do this alone. Your donation can provide nutritional “soup meals” to hundreds of walkers “caminantes” at Food Distributions Centers that need the most.
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