Giving Compass' Take:

• Global Citizen reports on the economic crisis in Venezuela and how it's affecting children: Many are forced to devote their time to finding what little food there is, rather than going to school.

• The collapse of Venezuela is putting a strain on neighboring countries, as tens of thousands attempt to flee extreme poverty. How can aid and humanitarian organizations ease the burden at the borders?

• Not only are people going hungry in this region, but malaria is once again on the rise.

Outside a church in the Colombian border city of Cucuta, Martha Carbajalino flips nervously through a pile of papers in her hands, standing with dozens of other migrant Venezuelan parents hoping to enroll their undocumented children into school.

Like some 1.5 million other people in the last two years, Carbajalino, 46, fled the hunger and violence of economic collapse and a political crisis in Venezuela.

A month ago she, along with her son and her mother, disabled by a stroke, crossed the border to scrape a living in Cucuta, a city receiving many of the Venezuelans leaving their homeland.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has described the situation in Venezuela, with its hyperinflation and severe recession, as a "humanitarian crisis." Colombia was spending millions of dollars to support the migrants, he said during a recent visit to the border.

Carbajalino hopes to get Luis Angel, her 7-year-old son who likes to draw robots, into school, but she cannot figure out how.

"I knock on doors, and no one opens for me," she said through tears outside offices of the Scalabrini International Migration Network, a Catholic organization for migrant aid.

"I don't have anywhere to go and here, they say, they give help," Carbajalino said.

Thousands of Venezuelan children in Cucuta are not going to school, spending their days alone, following their parents, selling items on the streets or begging.

Every day more arrive. About 40,000 Venezuelans were legally entering Colombia each month at the end of 2017, according to Colombian authorities, with thousands more thought to enter illegally.

Read the full article about how Venezuela's hunger crisis affects children by Dylan Baddour at Global Citizen.