Support links for Venezuelan earthquake relief

Nearly one week after a double earthquake in Northern Venezuela, tens of thousands of people are still missing. Unofficial websites, which have been spontaneously built by local communities to record and find missing people (in lack of an official one) currently list more than 50,000 people unaccounted for.

The earthquakes are among the strongest to strike Venezuela in more than a century.

While it remains hard to access numbers and data on the ground, it can be estimated that at least 1,700 people have been confirmed dead, although the number is widely expected to increase or even remain inaccurate. More than 5,000 injured people are being treated in improvised tents and centers, sometimes on the floor with a serious shortage of supplies (with the country's healthcare system already floored before the earthquakes). The direct physical damage is about US$7 billion but the overall economic cost could reach 1.5 to 3 times that, in a country that was already violently poor.

Financial donations are the fastest and most direct way to help at this point in time, since the logistics to send physical donations (medicines, clothes, water, food) are not yet there from most places. No donation however small is irrelevant. Five euros can be a pack of diapers, ten euros can be a blanket.

If you see an event in Berlin collecting physical supplies, it's always worth asking if you can support, and if they have figured out the logistics for actually sending those supplies. If you don't feel comfortable sending money, you can also wait until (hopefully) international bridges are established for relief supplies collection in your city. People will still need help for years to come.

Please contact us if you have any links to add to the below list on hello@refugeworldwide.com

International Organizations

• Global Empowerment Mission

• United Nations Development Program

• All Hands and Hearts

Venezuelan Organizations (long-established with international representation)

• We Love Foundation (former We Love Venezuela) through their GoFundMe

• Hogar Bambi

• Chamos

• Alimenta la Solidaridad

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