Ana and Jesús are a couple. They began their relationship in Yaracuy, a state belonging to Venezuela, some years ago. In 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and while she was still studying and he was working at the Central Hospital of Venezuela, they decided to migrate from their country in search of improving their life quality, heading first to Colombia, where they lived for a year.

In Colombia Jesus worked on a farm, picking guavas, but at the end of 2021 and because things were not going as expected, together with Ana they decided to migrate again. The destination? Chile, where relatives were waiting for them. This is how, during Christmas last year, they took their belongings and put them in their bags; but this time they were not traveling with just the two of them, Ana was pregnant, in an advanced state of gestation.

In February 2022, and already in Chile, specifically in Iquique, their daughter was born. But she was born early, on February 11, prematurely and in the Iquique Hospital, in the north of the country, which changed their plans to meet their relatives in the central zone. 

While their baby was in the hospital, Ana and Jesús were among the more than 220 people who benefited between January and April of this year from the temporary housing provided by the IOM in the Iquique district. Of these, 50 were men, 64 women, 55 boys and 60 girls.     

"Thank God we have been treated well here," says Ana in a square in the city.

SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
 

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