Mayerlin Vergara

Mayerlin Vergara or Mayerlín Vergara Pérez is a Colombian teacher, a director of a shelter home for exploited children and a recipient of the Nansen Refugee Award in 2020.

Life Vergara was born in about 1975 and she became a Colombian teacher The foundation began in 1988 and it was started by Luz Stella Cárdenas. Despite these laws the trafficking between Venezeala and Colombia increased by nearly a quarter from 2015 to 2019 and sexual exploitation was considered to be the motive in over half the cases. and a $150,000 prize in recognition of the hundreds of children she has rescued from sex work. She works near the city of Riohacha and her area of Colombia has received two million refugees from Venezuela. In Riohacha she reported that children are held in brothels where men pay an entry fee for sex.