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If you are able, please consider donating to the Venezuela Humanitarian Fund. They dispense donations out to local organizations on the ground in Venezuela, and you can donate as little as 2 dollars. If you know of any local organizations who are able to take donations online, please share them.

https://crisisrelief.un.org/en/donate-venezuela-crisis

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i haven't seen many options for people outside to donate. easiest way is this fundraiser from the I Love Venezuela Foundation

you can also donate directly through zelle and binance to Organizacion Solo con Fe in barquisimeto, but !!! make sure to label it "donacion" so it can be correctly identified. everything will be used for relief in the affected zones.

lastly, Passagio is a Miami-based courier that's put a special fare of $4/lb for aid to be sent to venezuela. no profits will be made from this, that's strictly transportation costs. they're accepting: medicine, non-perishable food, hygiene products, clothing, essential supplies.

It's not just depressing, it's disheartening; it breaks my heart more than you can imagine. The country's economic problems, caused by the dictatorship we've endured for the last 25 years, have led to a profound neglect of the health sector (hospitals aren't prepared for this kind of catastrophe; there are no medicines, supplies, nothing on a normal day, and now? You see videos of pregnant women giving birth with their babies in their arms while everything collapses around them, of sick people carrying their own supplies… imagine those who aren't in a position to do that), the security sector (I've seen videos of National Police officers looting stores affected by the earthquakes), and most of the rescue efforts are led by residents of affected areas, civilians who aren't prepared for something like this; they don't have heavy machinery to lift the tons of rubble left by entire buildings, because so many collapsed.

And the economic crisis has only meant that those apartments, those houses, those homes—the product of years and years of effort and work, because saving money is extremely difficult here—hurt almost as much as the lives lost because the minimum wage wasn't enough for anything, and saving is impossible, and buying food becomes the most important thing above all else. No one in Venezuela today is able to buy a home, no one in Venezuela is able to save money, and now? Entire families lost everything, entire families disappeared in seconds.

An entire state collapsed. Entire buildings fell in seconds like houses of cards, and Venezuela was NOT READY for a catastrophe of that magnitude. The number of missing is incalculable, and it may take weeks to rescue people because Venezuelans are working WITH THEIR HANDS when the government should be providing us with the necessary heavy machinery. There are no gloves, no shovels, no helmets, nothing. There are very few people working, and the government isn't doing anything. I haven't seen any government agencies, military personnel, or practically anything from the government helping. I only saw the mayor of one municipality working in the landslide zone (oh, but when students protest for their rights? The number of Venezuelan soldiers massacring innocent people is countless; there we see that they don't care about the people, only about maintaining their grip on power in a dictatorship by stealing the country's vast resources).

i haven't seen many options for people outside to donate. easiest way is this fundraiser from the I Love Venezuela Foundation

you can also donate directly through zelle and binance to Organizacion Solo con Fe in barquisimeto, but !!! make sure to label it "donacion" so it can be correctly identified. everything will be used for relief in the affected zones.

lastly, Passagio is a Miami-based courier that's put a special fare of $4/lb for aid to be sent to venezuela. no profits will be made from this, that's strictly transportation costs. they're accepting: medicine, non-perishable food, hygiene products, clothing, essential supplies.

It's not just depressing, it's disheartening; it breaks my heart more than you can imagine. The country's economic problems, caused by the dictatorship we've endured for the last 25 years, have led to a profound neglect of the health sector (hospitals aren't prepared for this kind of catastrophe; there are no medicines, supplies, nothing on a normal day, and now? You see videos of pregnant women giving birth with their babies in their arms while everything collapses around them, of sick people carrying their own supplies… imagine those who aren't in a position to do that), the security sector (I've seen videos of National Police officers looting stores affected by the earthquakes), and most of the rescue efforts are led by residents of affected areas, civilians who aren't prepared for something like this; they don't have heavy machinery to lift the tons of rubble left by entire buildings, because so many collapsed.

And the economic crisis has only meant that those apartments, those houses, those homes—the product of years and years of effort and work, because saving money is extremely difficult here—hurt almost as much as the lives lost because the minimum wage wasn't enough for anything, and saving is impossible, and buying food becomes the most important thing above all else. No one in Venezuela today is able to buy a home, no one in Venezuela is able to save money, and now? Entire families lost everything, entire families disappeared in seconds.

An entire state collapsed. Entire buildings fell in seconds like houses of cards, and Venezuela was NOT READY for a catastrophe of that magnitude. The number of missing is incalculable, and it may take weeks to rescue people because Venezuelans are working WITH THEIR HANDS when the government should be providing us with the necessary heavy machinery. There are no gloves, no shovels, no helmets, nothing. There are very few people working, and the government isn't doing anything. I haven't seen any government agencies, military personnel, or practically anything from the government helping. I only saw the mayor of one municipality working in the landslide zone (oh, but when students protest for their rights? The number of Venezuelan soldiers massacring innocent people is countless; there we see that they don't care about the people, only about maintaining their grip on power in a dictatorship by stealing the country's vast resources).