Venezuelan mothers wait to vaccinate their babies at a humanitarian clinic in La Parada, Cucuta, Colombia. Many new mothers regularly make the journey to Colombia to seek medical treatment. Image by Mariana Rivas. Colombia, 2019.
Venezuelan mothers wait to vaccinate their babies at a humanitarian clinic in La Parada, Cucuta, Colombia. Many new mothers regularly make the journey to Colombia to seek medical treatment. Image by Mariana Rivas. Colombia, 2019.

This project seeks to shine a light on families that choose to start over. The dynamics of Venezuelan refugee families are far from simple: their ultimate sacrifices, their harsh newfound realities. These families abandoned everything in search of a new beginning better than where they came from, but they're still working to find it.