Some Venezuelan migrants lost their jobs during the pandemic and this pushed them to work on their own in informal sectors
In post-pandemic times, the absence of job opportunities for Venezuelan migrants in their host countries, as well as their lack of income derived from the crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, are some of the many challenges that they will face, both they such as NGOs that work with this population.
The Colombian program director of the Ayuda en Acción organization, Orlando Ortiz, told Europe Press that the unemployment rate —which in itself was not good before the pandemic and the war in Ukraine— has made the United States a new migratory destination, although the rest of the Latin American countries have not stopped receiving the compatriots.
María Alejandra Gutiérrez Heredia lives in Cúcuta, a Colombian city, along with her husband, her five children and her grandson, all of whom are Venezuelans. Her testimony reflects the difficulties suffered by those people who are dedicated to recycling, a job that supports the whole family. Both she and her husband, with the help of her two youngest children, who now go to public school, have been forced to work in this sector, driven by necessity and due to the lack of job opportunities in Colombia. .
Meanwhile, in Peru, for example, Mayen, a Venezuelan migrant, managed to establish herself after traveling for seven days by bus with her two youngest daughters. Upon arriving in the Latin American country, she found a position as a dental assistant, although later, and in the middle of the pandemic, she was left without a job. The situation for her and her family reached such an extreme that she was forced to sell jelly and ice cream in front of the school door of her children. Her story, however, ends positively: she now supports a business in her house where she receives her clients.
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