Venezuelan parents are giving up their children to survive as the South American country’s suffers with a catastrophic economic crisis.
Three local councils and four national welfare groups say there is an increase in parents handing kids over to the state, charities, friends and family.
A baby boy was recently found abandoned inside a bag in capital Caracas and a malnourished one-year-old boy was found in a cardboard box in Ciudad Guayana in recent months.
The trend is an indictment of Venezuela's triple-digit inflation and near 80 per cent currency collapse over the last year.
“This is written in the bible. We’re living in the end of times,” said Zulay Pulgar, who gave her six-year-old daughter to a neighbour in October. “It’s better that she has another family than go into prostitution, drugs or die of hunger.” Full story...
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Three local councils and four national welfare groups say there is an increase in parents handing kids over to the state, charities, friends and family.
A baby boy was recently found abandoned inside a bag in capital Caracas and a malnourished one-year-old boy was found in a cardboard box in Ciudad Guayana in recent months.
The trend is an indictment of Venezuela's triple-digit inflation and near 80 per cent currency collapse over the last year.
“This is written in the bible. We’re living in the end of times,” said Zulay Pulgar, who gave her six-year-old daughter to a neighbour in October. “It’s better that she has another family than go into prostitution, drugs or die of hunger.” Full story...
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