The Children Of Venezuela: A Generation Lost?

Chronic poverty and food shortages drive kids and their families to desperation, whether sifting through garbage for scraps or joining a gang — and facing brutal consequences. Sep 21, 2024 · we are venezuela’s lost generation—those of us who left as children or teens, too young to fully understand what we were leaving behind, but old enough to bear its scars. Others remained, some betting on venezuela’s resilience, while others lacked the means to escape. Mar 5, 2023 · valerie is part of a generation of venezuelan children who know only a country in crisis, whose lives so far have been spent amid hardship and under the government of a single. Mar 5, 2023 · a generation of children in venezuela have only known a country in crisis, plagued over the last decade or more by shortages and inflation.

Around one million children have been left behind by their parents. This remarkable film follows two single mothers and their children over several months as they do what it takes to survive. Jan 29, 2019 · venezuela is on the brink of a lost generation as more and more children are hit by the country's humanitarian and political crisis, an advocacy group has warned. Studies of venezuelan youth show worrying patterns of diminished critical thinking skills and increased susceptibility to propaganda, demonstrating how authoritarian control can alter. May 28, 2019 · an estimated 840,000 children have lost at least one parent to emigration, the child advocacy group cecodap reports.