“El incremento de solicitudes para ingresar a una casa hogar ha aumentado 70% en los últimos dos años, frente a un decrecimiento de la cantidad de casas hogar”, advierte el abogado Leonardo Rodríguez, exdirector de la red de casas de abrigo Don Bosco. Venezuela pasó de tener 56 albergues infantiles en 2016, a solo 30 este año, según la Asamblea Nacional de Entidades y Programas de Protección a la Niñez y Adolescencia. Algunos de estos espacios han cerrado por falta de dinero, paradójicamente, cuando más se necesita que funcionen. Texto Completo -> VOA

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Los venezolanos en edad escolar no tienen la vía libre para acceder al sistema educativo ecuatoriano. La precariedad económica, la falta de documentos de identidad, la xenofobia y el acoso cerca de los centros educativos son las barreras que mantienen fuera del sistema educativo a 4 de cada 10 niños, niñas y adolescentes migrantes. Por Jorge Flores Riofrío. Texto completo -> VenezuelaMIgrante

Traducción de cortesía -> Venezuelans of school age do not have a free way to access the Ecuadorian educational system. Economic precariousness, lack of identity documents, xenophobia and harassment near educational centers are the barriers that keep 4 out of 10 migrant children and adolescents out of the educational system.

“This June 14, a framework agreement for the reunification of Venezuelan children and adolescents abroad with their relatives or representatives in Venezuela was signed between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the International Committee of the Red Cross,” Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry announced on its website. Full Text -> YeniSafak

Situation in Numbers

5.48 million children in need of assistance (UNICEF HAC 2021, based on RMRP 2021 and country estimates)

14.73 million people in need of assistance (UNICEF HAC 2021, based on RMRP 2021 and country estimates)

4.6 million Venezuelan migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean (RMRP 2021)

5.4 million Venezuelan migrants worldwide (RMRP 2021)

By UNICEF . Full Text -> reliefWeb

To address the critical need for education alternatives during and after the pandemic, the IRC, in partnership with the LEGO Foundation, launched Play Well, an education audio program. Play Well will help promote learning among young Colombian and Venezuelan children living in Colombia through play-based, social-emotional educational content created and adapted by the IRC. The episodes will be accessible in different environments, delivered via radio, interactive voice response (IVR) calls, social media, WhatsApp and SMS, covering regions where access to the internet is limited.  Full Text-> Rescue.org

The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has reached a deal with the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela to provide food to the country’s schoolchildren. Child malnutrition has been on the rise as Venezuela’s once-prosperous economy has gone into freefall and health services have collapsed. Full Text -> Yahoo!News

In Spain in 2019 there were 721,556 minor migrants, of whom almost 147,000 were undocumented and of whom 14,817 come from Venezuela. This figure represents an irregularity rate of 20.4%. In other words, one out of every five foreign children grows up without papers in the European country, the majority are from Latin America. Full Text-> Explica

This is stated in a confidential e-mail sent on November 26 addressed to Sandra Flores, head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.. By Denyse Renne. Full Text -> DailyExpress

UNESCO’s national report with a focus on Colombia highlights their efforts to serve the Venezuelan population in their territory. Of 460,000 children under 18 with school needs, over 198,000 are already enrolled in the educational system, most of them in primary and secondary education (79%). However, around 260,000 still remain outside the educational system. Full Text-> RelifWeb/ OCHA

Angelina Jolie, UN special envoy for refugees, has pleaded Saturday with the colombian government in favour of some 20,000 children of parents venezuelans who may find themselves stateless, as a result of the exodus caused by the crisis in neighbouring Venezuela. The american actress, 44-year-old spoke of this hidden phenomenon with the colombian president, Ivan Duque, in the framework of a visit of two days in Colombia. By Kim Lee. Full Text -> D1SoftBallNews