Stories
Mariluz Sifontes: Working Towards Her Dreams While Bridging Sister Communities in Peru
Mariluz Sifontes: Working Towards Her Dreams While Bridging Sister Communities in Peru By Alexandra Anda Mariluz Sifontes arrived in Peru in August 2019. She was looking for a place where she could offer a better life to her children, aged 11 and 8 years-old. In Venezuela, she was a security technician in the oil industry […]
Nurianny Albino: Paving The Way for Venezuelan Migrant Women in Peru
Nurianny Albino: Paving The Way for Venezuelan Migrant Women in Peru When Nurianny left Venezuela for Peru with her two girls, she wasn’t aware that she would play a part in changing the misconceptions that many have of the Venezuelan diaspora. Nurianny is a 35 years-old professional paramedic, with more than 12 years of experience […]
María Rosa Rodríguez: A Venezuelan Migrant Starting a New Life in Peru
María Rosa Rodríguez: A Venezuelan Migrant Starting a New Life in Peru Maria Rosa arrived in Lima a year and a half ago. She is a 44-year-old Venezuelan migrant woman, with a Master’s Degree in Education Planning and Evaluation and more than 20 years of experience as a teacher. Like many Venezuelan migrants in the […]
Meet 6 Women Leading Transformative Approaches to Address Venezuela’s Regional Crisis!
The BetterTogether Challenge is proud to fund and scale locally-driven, women-led innovations to support Venezuelans and their host communities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although 2019 was a record year for business start-ups and innovations led by women, the United Nations warned that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause a setback. Today more than ever we must continue […]
Accounts from Venezuela: Innovating for Access to Clean Water
Eighty percent of Venezuelans do not have access to clean water, and many can only rely on polluted water sources. Thanks to the work of our innovators, more than 600 families in Venezuela now have a water point of proven quality, less than 30 minutes away from their homes and free of charge. Our innovators […]
Rekindling the Spark of an Immigrant: Young Venezuelans and Brazilians Build Dreams and Citizenship as a Team
With pride and humility, this talented young Venezuelan woman who is also a journalist, dancer and daughter, introduces herself. Eliezka is now also a member of Young Changemakers; one of the innovative programs funded by the BetterTogether Challenge in Brazil. The decision and the path to leave Venezuela and migrate to Brazil were not easy […]
Carlos Miranda: Sowing a Message of Resilience and Solidarity between Young Venezuelans and Colombians
Carlos Miranda is one of millions of Venezuelans who left his country in search of a better life. He now lives in Colombia where he assists Venezuelans and Colombian returnees in vulnerable situations, and has discovered his vocation to help others by creating safe spaces for migrant children and Colombian returnees to interact and develop. […]
6 Innovadores Trabajando para Solucionar la Violencia de Género en todo el Mundo
Focus Areas: Gender Cada año, cientos de millones de mujeres y niñas de todo el mundo experimentan alguna forma de violencia, y la mayoría no denuncia los incidentes ni busca ayuda. El COVID-19 ha exacerbado esta tendencia, con cuarentenas, cierres de escuelas, e inseguridad económica que intensificaron la violencia doméstica, y han dejado a las mujeres […]
Finding a Safe Space: Venezuelan Women Face Harassment and Gender-based Violence as They Seek a New Place to Call Home
The impact of the Venezuelan crisis continues to expand, disproportionately impacting women across Latin America and the Caribbean. Of the over 5 million Venezuelans who have left their homeland and crossed international borders, at least 40 percent identify as female. Leaving Venezuela is extremely difficult for women. They are vulnerable to forced sex, sexual exploitation, […]
“I Want My Country to be the Same Again”
“I Want My Country to be the Same Again.” Venezuela’s political, humanitarian and economic crisis has driven more than 5 million people to flee the country, the largest external displacement of people in the Western Hemisphere’s history. The situation has led to severe shortages of food, electricity, medicine, water and other basic needs. Despite the […]
“If You Can Be a Woman Soldier There, You Can Handle Pretty Much Anything.”
“If You Can Be a Woman Soldier There, You Can Handle Pretty Much Anything.” Diana is a former Venezuelan soldier who fled her homeland in search of a better life with her two young kids, Ordanys, age six and Odamyer, age three. She left everything behind except for the mattress that the family shares. Venezuela’s […]