CARE focuses its response on some of the most at risk forcibly displaced and host community members, especially women, girls, and young men.
Relief efforts in Colombia
CARE has been present in the Latin America and Caribbean region since 1954. CARE has been responding to the Venezuela migrant and refugee crisis with an approach sensitive to women and girls’ voice and leadership. CARE has been implementing emergency response interventions directly and through partners (in particular, women’s organisations) in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. CARE focuses its response on some of the most at-risk forcibly displaced and host community members, especially women, girls, and young men.
In Colombia, CARE focuses on protection, health, and early recovery. This includes providing vouchers for protection, humanitarian transportation, legal and psychosocial counselling, and strengthening institutional and community protection systems. CARE also offers reproductive health services, particularly for pregnant women who have never had access to prenatal support. Additionally, CARE supports women’s entrepreneurship to reinforce their livelihoods. In every intervention, CARE aims to include up to 30% of hosting communities in order to bolster social cohesion.
Colombia receives the highest number of Venezuelan refugees and migrants in the region. Currently, over 2.8 million Venezuelans live in Colombia. The mass exodus of people has overwhelmed the country’s health and education systems, among others, and has fueled rising xenophobia in the country.
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