Venezuela
Venezuela Earthquake Relief
Program Start: June 2026
All Hands & Hearts mobilized its disaster relief team to Venezuela in response to the powerful 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes. In collaboration with our local partner Alimenta La Solidaridad, we started delivering water and emergency supplies to survivors and search & rescue teams less than 24 hours after the earthquakes and continue to deliver immediate relief to the communities hit the hardest. Read details of our response and recent updates below.
Our Response
AH&H is delivering critical aid to survivors and rescue teams, and will stay to help communities recover
We need your help to bring life-saving assistance to families affected by the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, and to stand alongside them throughout the long recovery that lies ahead.
Within 24 hours, together with our trusted local partners, we delivered the first trucks carrying clean water and other essential relief supplies to the hardest-hit communities in La Guaira.
Since then, we have delivered thousands of meals to families, with daily meal production continuing to scale across multiple distribution points. We’ve helped provide ongoing access to safe drinking water through water filtration systems, along with broader access to water for hygiene needs such as bathing, laundry, and cleaning. Families have received hygiene kits containing essentials such as soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, wipes, and toilet paper. We provided Starlinks, giving communities access to high-speed internet, helping them reconnect with loved ones while enabling responders to coordinate relief efforts in real time. Families who lost their homes have received emergency shelter support, including mattresses, tents, tarps, and shelter sheets, along with medication to support urgent health needs in affected communities. Generators and heavy-duty tools are supporting debris removal and other critical response efforts, and cemetery workers and local rescue team members have received protective equipment and essential supplies to safely carry out difficult work. We have also provided children’s kits to schools and community shelters, packed with art supplies, toys, and games to support children processing trauma.
As headlines fade and search-and-rescue operations wind down, the needs on the ground don’t disappear with them. Communities are grieving. Families remain displaced. Recovery will take time, and it will take many hands working together.
We are committed to standing alongside the people of Venezuela — not just to respond quickly, but to stay for the long recovery ahead.
Our response will evolve in three phases:
• Over the first days: Emergency Response
Our priority was to save lives by delivering clean water, food, generators, hygiene supplies, masks, emergency shelter materials, tents, connectivity support, and other essential relief items while continuing to assess evolving needs, coordinate closely with local authorities and partners, and ensure assistance reaches the communities most affected.
• Over the following weeks: Early Recovery
As Search and Rescue wraps up and immediate humanitarian needs begin to stabilize, our focus expanded to helping families safely return home through debris removal and site clearance, supporting emergency and transitional shelter solutions, restoring access to safe water and sanitation, and helping children return to learning as quickly as possible through school clean-up, minor repairs, and temporary learning spaces where needed.
• Over the months ahead: Long-Term Recovery
Recovery is a marathon, not a sprint. While most disaster funding is mobilized during the first weeks following a catastrophe, communities often spend months, and frequently years, rebuilding their homes, schools, livelihoods, and sense of normalcy.
At All Hands & Hearts, our commitment extends far beyond the emergency phase. We arrive early and stay late, partnering with communities to rebuild stronger, safer, and more resilient than before. It is this sustained commitment that makes lasting recovery possible.
