Thank you for joining with us to help provide shelter and essential items to people who have lost their homes due to the earthquakes in Venezuela.

Right now, our teams are working urgently with Rotary and our local partner to assess what support is needed on the ground.

We have aid stored in Barbados and Panama and are in the process of moving it to Venezuela by sea and air. Items include tents, shelter kits and household items including mosquito nets, blankets, sleeping mats, solar lights and kitchen sets.

The full extent of the damage is yet to be assessed, but we know that thousands of people have been left homeless or are too afraid to stay in damaged buildings. 

This is a crisis upon a crisis. According to the UN, over 25% of the Venezuelan population already needed some form of humanitarian assistance before the earthquakes.

We will also be taking learnings from ShelterBox responses to similar devastating disasters in urban environments, like the earthquakes in Türkiye & Northern Syria in 2023. In that instance, our supporters helped us to provide tents, blankets and other aid to a total of 18,800 disaster-affected people.