Thank you for joining with us to make a life changing difference after disaster. We do it together.

By fundraising for this emergency appeal you will be helping us to provide shelter and essential items to people who have lost their homes due to the earthquakes in Venezuela. In the event that our emergency response becomes fully funded, your fundraising will provide life-saving support to people affected by disaster around the world.

Right now, our teams are working urgently with Rotary and our local partner to assess what support is needed on the ground. With aid pre-positioned in Barbados and Panama and recent preparedness work in the region, we are ready to respond with emergency shelter and essential items.

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.

The image above was taken by MANAURE QUINTERO in the capital of Venezuela, on the 24th of June, the day the earthquakes struck.