Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are appealing to the international community for aid as they deal with the surge in migrants from Venezuela. Nearly 2-million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2015, overwhelming public services in other Latin American countries. In Peru, some migrants are finding it easier to integrate into small agricultural communities. CGTN's Dan Collyns is in a Peruvian town on the border with Ecuador.

These Venezuelans have walked for days or even weeks to escape hunger and hardship at home. Today they're strolling through a sleepy border town in Peru. It's small and poor but Corrales has become a home from home for these migrants. Now they're eating their first proper meals in weeks. Thanks to one woman.

SOFIA VASQUEZ, MOTHER SUPERIOR DAUGHTERS OF SANTA ANA ORDER "They arrived here malnourished. The adults showed us their ID cards saying: 'Look, Mother, this is what I used to look like, I have lost 20 to 30 kilos.' The children were underweight, of course, they got sick. Now at least they can eat well and they can rest because now they have a roof over their heads."

With the food and makeshift hostels donated by this rural community, Vasquez has helped hundreds of fleeing Venezuelans get on their feet. Some have been here for weeks, other just days. Thirty-eight-year-old pharmacist Richard Parra walked and hitch-hiked for 13 days to get here.

RICHARD PARRA VENEZUELAN MIGRANT "I earned a good salary in Venezuela, three times the minimum wage, I got bonuses and incentives but even with that it wasn't enough to support my family. Everything was too expensive; you buy a product one day and the next day it costs double and there's no sign that will change."

Working as street vendors or constructions workers, they send whatever they can save to their families at home. Some are even selling their worthless Venezuelan bank notes as souvenirs. If they are lucky, ice-creams.

DAN COLLYNS CORRALES, PERU "If life in Venezuela was a struggle, then living a life abroad presents a whole new series of challenges. For most Venezuelans, simply getting approved was the biggest obstacle. Now life is about finding work and getting enough to eat."

The International Monetary Fund predicts inflation is Venezuela will reach one million per cent by the end of the year. All Venezuelan here say staying at home was not an option. Dan Collyns, CGTN, in Corrales, Peru.