55,000 Colombian Refugees in Ecuador

Colombiareports.co reported that the United Nations Refugee Agency will launch a plan to aid child refugees from Colombia who are residing in Ecuador.

The regional representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, John Fredrikson, stated over the weekend that he will soon launch a plan to allow easier access to a normal education for Colombian children who have been displaced to Ecuador.

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The UN reports that of the 400,000 Colombians who have left their home due to armed conflict, 300,000 have fled to Latin American countries such as Ecuador.

Colombia’s south western border country currently hosts the largest number of refugees in Latin America with over 55,000 people within Ecuador’s border.

98% of these refugees are Colombian, and 23% of that whole (12,838 people) are children and adolescents. Read Article