María Cira, a displaced Wayúu Venezuelan woman

María Cira, is a Venezuelan Wayúu woman who fled the humanitarian emergency in her country, where food and medicine where scarce.

María Cira at the Americares Colombia clinic in Maicao, La Guajira.

Colombia Patient Highlight: Skarlett

Meet Skarlett, a Venezuelan trans woman who migrated due to the complex socioeconomic situation in her country. She has been residing in Colombia for the last three years and is a patient of Americares in the city of Santa Marta, where she receives help and has access to general medicine, mental health and medicine supply at no cost.

Colombia Patient Highlight: Skarlett

“Caminantes”–walkers

In the past years, millions of Venezuelans have fled turmoil in their country. Since summer 2018, Americares has been supporting those who have settled in Colombia.