An apple: the simple pleasure that Venezuelan children discover after fleeing their country

The crisis in Venezuela is so deep that the lack of food is more and more felt. Lack of food and basic necessities, coupled with rampant hyperinflation, is wreaking havoc in the Caribbean country. These are two reasons more than sufficient for, for example, children are deprived of basic food.

Inés Lópezobserver on the ground of the United Nations World Food Program, told Rumichaca, Colombia and Ecuadorian border post, that the apple is a delight for Venezuelan migrant children.

"When the emergency started, at the first summit we had here in Rumichaca, we started delivering apples," began his story.

And he continued: "The children who arrived saw the apples only by drawings, notebooks and books. Never personally. When they saw the apples, they said, "Is it really an apple?" They had never eaten apple. " Incredible but real.

"The mothers said that Four years had pbaded since they've tried an apple for its cost. For them, it was a delight and a satisfaction to have an apple", concluded his story Lopez.

Thousands of Venezuelans have left the country in recent years because of the deep crisis in the country, hit by scarcity, inflation and insecurity.

January 10th dictator Nicolás Maduro takes his second term, which is not recognized by the United States, the European Union and most Latin American countries.

A few months ago, the NGO International Rescue Committee (IRC) He warned that the number of Venezuelans arrived in Colombia fleeing the crisis in their country could double in the next six months.

It's because the Venezuelan economy continues in "Freefall and the country's health system", said in a statement the CRI, founded in 1933 by Albert Einstein.

The director of the CRI for Colombia, Marianne Menijvar, commented "every day the crisis in Venezuela becomes deeper" and the "economic and political collapse"As a result, food and medicine are not available to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.

It forces people to "make the desperate decision to leave their homes and flee to Colombia"Menijvar explained.

"The six main needs of Venezuelans settled in Colombia –work, food, money to pay rent, health, housing and medicines– could be solved with full access to a salary and, to survive, Venezuelans are forced to take desperate measures to get money, "he said.

However, he specifies that when he arrived in Colombia, his life "it's far from easy"since they do not eat the amount or the necessary times.