LETTERING:
Pacaraima
Brazilian town near the border with Venezuela

María Helena
Seamstress

Domingo
Lawyer

TESTIMONY:
When it comes to family matters, it's very sad. Families have been looking for better living conditions.

We have three children.
The first one went to Bogotá, in Colombia.

There, seeing my situation – because I ended up alone here, as I didn’t have the papers to leave for another city with my other two children – he had a haemorrhagic stroke and didn't make it.

Looking for a better life, he left with his family but all he found was death.

I couldn't go there to be with him in the seven months he was there [in hospital].
All I wanted was to see my son.

We are both here. My other two children are in Rio Grande do Sul. Here in Brazil.

It’s splitting up the family. Even if it doesn’t show, I hurt inside.

It would have been so lovely if we could all have stayed there [in Venezuela]. Maybe my son would still be alive. Maybe.

Lettering:
MSF is responding to the needs of Venezuelan migrants arriving in Brazil by running mobile clinics in the cities of Pacaraima and Boa Vista in Roraima state.

Most patients have symptoms of acute stress, depression and anxiety linked to displacement, family separation, walking long distances and violence.

WHEN LEAVING IS THE LAST RESORT
Migrating from Venezuela to Brazil