Giving Compass' Take:

• Global Citizen reports on the growing crisis in Venezuela, where citizens who lack even the most basic necessities are seeking asylum in neighboring Colombia, but the political situation in that country is also volatile.

• How can humanitarian groups provide relief? The scope of the problem will require multiple cross-sector partnerships to address, with things only getting worse over time.

• Here's why Venezuela’s refugee crisis could exceed the one in Syria.

In search of food, Yackeisy Uzcategui left Venezuela in 2017 with her husband and four children for Colombia. But hunger has followed them to the slum where they settled on the outskirts of Cucuta, near the Venezuelan border.

“If we have no work, we have no food,” Uzcategui told News Deeply. “Today we ate duck bones with our rice and beans. We asked our neighbor for them, we said it was for the dog.”

In oil-dependent Venezuela, a global decline in crude prices five years ago has spurred an economic collapse. Government-run assistance is disappearing, violence is increasing and inflation is rampant, spiking prices of even basic food items.

The situation has also spurred the largest migration crisis in the Western Hemisphere. Following a sharp jump in the second half of 2017, neighboring Colombia has registered at least 660,000 Venezuelan migrants, though experts believe there could be up to a million in the country. And according to the World Food Program (WFP), 90 percent of the migrants arriving in Colombia said they left home because they could not get enough to eat.

Except most are not finding relief in Colombia. Work is hard to come by for many Venezuelans — particularly those without — and poverty is rife. Experts are struggling even to quantify the scale of malnutrition they are contending with, let alone set up programs that can begin to address it. And those problems are exacerbated by the political situation in Colombia, where officials are grappling with different priorities.

Read the full article about displaced Venezuelans fleeing to Colombia by Will Worley at Global Citizen.