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STORY: COLOMBIA / COVID-19 VENEZUELAN REFUGEES
TRT: 03:27
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: APRIL 2020, MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA
1. Tracking shot, UNHCR staff members and public servants walk towards family tents
2. Wide shot, public servants play with children
3. Various shots, UNHCR staff members and public servants organize family tents
4. Various shots, 54 Public servants give food and evaluate people’s body temperature
5. Tracking shot, UNHCR staff member walks next to the family tents and goes inside one of them.
6. Wide shot, public servants build family tent
7. Various shots, family tents and portable restrooms
8. Wide shot, public servants build family tent
9. Wide shot, public servants give a dance class
UNHCR is supporting vulnerable Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Colombia with shelters, food, and cleaning kits, and other crucial supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Colombia is host to more than 1.6 million Venezuelans, of whom more than half, almost 60 percent, lack a regular status. Many of them face difficulties accessing essential services, such as health, education and employment.
People continue to leave Venezuela to escape violence, insecurity and threats as well as lack of food, medicine and essential services.
With over 4 million Venezuelans now living abroad, the vast majority in countries within Latin America and the Caribbean, this is the largest exodus in the region’s recent history.
