For Ramón Alberto Ortegano, his original cake business with a history, called Amaretto’s, located in the city of Lima, is his great passion. Although it was not easy for this creative university professor to leave his family and his country of origin, starting from scratch in another country, weighing all the situations, was worth it, and as he himself confirms: “the new land received him with open arms.”

When Scarlet Pambianchi decided to take the step of migrating, she did so with great expectations, although she was aware that it would not be an easy path. From the first moment, her inner drive was to give her family a better future, which obviously included financially helping the people who had remained in the country of origin. Although her first destination was Mexico, the unexpected accident of a relative and her complications disrupted all her plans, so she decided to change her destination to Peru, where she wanted to create her own company.

A friend of hers offered her and her partner to move to the city of Lima to work in the sports area, with an interesting economic offer, since her specialty is artistic gymnastics. But when they arrived at their destination, her promise was diluted, and after discovering that nothing was as she had been promised, she returned to giving priority to the idea of an entrepreneurship, with more and more persistence.

Scarlett was aware that her own business had to be something as necessary as it was original, so when she saw clearly that her entrepreneurship would be focused on handmade footwear, her project began to take shape minute by minute. She tells us how even starting from the ignorance of her field, the exploration was fascinating to her, since it united those components that are fundamental for her: illusion, imagination and creativity. However, she and her partner soon realized that they needed training to really shape the business idea they both had.

Erika Beatriz González Correa created Therapy Dec, a business born from a personal purpose and a professional goal: to help people improve their life  quality through physical rehabilitation and recovery. “When I studied Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, I already knew that I would do a service job, and now I have the commitment to leave “my grain of sand” with each client, this time, in Lima”. From the first moment Érika knew that although she would have to overcome some initial challenges, such as getting her clients to trust her knowledge and experience, at a time when the mass migration of Venezuelans was increasing by leaps and bounds, she would have to continue working internally to face the fear of rejection, that it would still be there, even if things went well.

For Gustavo Alejandro Herrera, the decision to migrate was not an easy one. It took him a year of reflection to leave a large part of his family in Venezuela. From his first company in Trujillo, Cambios RYG, destined to send remittances to his country, he felt valued and respected by his neighbors, although the first few months were economically complicated. The most important thing in that early period was saving money, so for six months he restricted himself to eating practically everything, except the essentials, unlike the way of life he was used to.

Having set a goal helped him to apply it to his company as well. His growth strategy was to set small goals and meet them under any circumstances. Gustavo is convinced that entrepreneurships have to somehow show the values of its manager. That is why he wants his clients to feel that being Venezuelan has education as a mark, and he considers it essential for business.

And not only because he considers that in certain branches it is not enough to work hard and make an effort, but that more values ​​must be provided, such as honesty or sincerity. “No one likes,” he says, “when the person you give your money to send to another country doesn’t act politely and seriously. I understand how you may feel, because if I can help my family myself I will feel good, but that does not mean that I give my savings to just anyone.”

Gregorio Enrique Torres Hernández’s entrepreneurship is called Creative Workshop and is focused on the visual arts, ranging from professional photography for social events, fashion, artistic activities, to personalized photos or contemporary abstract paintings made by himself.

For Enrique, the decision to migrate was born from the need to improve his an his family’s quality of life. According to him, “I wanted to give my son better opportunities in life, a future with more options, that would see in his life possibilities to broaden his interests.” For months he weighed options, limiting them to the small budget they had. Through his older sister, they were able to leave for Bogotá, but after a month of living there, they found it necessary to look for a better destination: Peru. At that time they were not aware of how being far away from Venezuela was going to affect them emotionally. “I think that one of the most difficult things is arriving in a new country to live and not knowing anyone,” he says, “we were our only support. It took us a few months to overcome that strong feeling of loneliness, although when we did, it somehow opened our minds.”

As he describes it, the fact that for many months they were forced to endure feelings of depression and loneliness, that didn’t stop them from fighting to start from scratch, no matter what it took.