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Juan Carlos and Dunia travel an hour and a half from Zea to Los Giros by bike. There they pick up Alix Teresa from the health team and walk a further two and a half hours (sometimes 3) to get to La Araña, where three children suffering from malnutrition and needing support live; they go to monitor them and provide them with their nutritional supplements ... because every child counts.
Commitment, sensitivity, loving work. Young people that give everything and more to others and continue to build a different Venezuela.
Some of these days used to be done by donkey, now thanks to the Ambassade de France au Venezuela the bike allows us to reach more remote locations. In these journeys, they can have safe drinking water thanks to the portable filter donated by Chamos ... with the support of so many we continue to save lives.
Thank you to so many for so much... we carry on living and building hope. ... See more

“We are hungry”, the communities we work in are telling us, “we are hungry”. Most of the families we work with spends over 90% of their earnings in food, and even that does not cover the needs at home; with a diet based on potato, cassava, arepa, rice, many families are not eating fruits, vegetables or proteins. Some have had to sell furniture or home appliances to buy food. The pandemic has made the emergency we were already in worse.

Our volunterers, with the necessary protection measures, continue to provide support, delivering food and care to those most in need, monitoring children suffering from malnutrition, promoting gardens and animal farming, encouraging. Thanks to the solidarity, to the support we receive, day to day, despite the shadows, we continue to seed hope. ... See more

Sometimes we don’t need words, sometimes words are not enough. Mothers… care, protection, strength, fight. Mothers… giving, 24/7, so often invisible. Mothers… commitment, connection, tears, smiles, love… Happy Mother’s Day!
#happymothersday especially to those mothers that work for other mothers; those that work for their children, those that with solidarity and love have adopted thousands of children in Venezuela, to provide them with food, care and protection.
Our volunteering mothers are our example to follow… God bless you! Thank you for being a mother to so many, thank you for building for and with them a better world. ... See more

A crumbling health system is now facing a pandemic. Thanks to the collaboration of many people, and partnerships with various organisations, we have continued to send medical supplies and medicines. This month, along with MUV France, we delivered valuable supplies to hospitals in Mérida, Portuguesa, Anzoátegui and Lara. The doctors and health workers are very grateful … working with others we can go farther, help more! ... See more

Samuel is almost five. He has trouble walking and his family has struggled under lockdown to find medical care. He lives with a big family, with very few resources. They depend on the grandparents’ pension and his mother doing casual domestic work, which doesn’t help cover the basic necessities. He started the Meals4hope nutrition program with Plumpy’Nut, provided by Edesia and generous donors, due to moderate acute malnutrition. The progress Samuel is making is evident in his smile. His mother dreams that when he’s older he can be a physician who helps others walk again.

Thank you Edesia for helping our children. Thanks Bastion Life for being a bridge that helped get everything to Venezuela. Thanks to everyone who makes this possible with their support! ... See more

Malutrition has increased rapidly with the pandemic. Many things have stopped ...but we can't stop. Our teams are still there, with protection measures, reaching those in need... to work with the community, to contine work that saves lives. ... See more

The lack of electricity and gas has led to many homes in poor communities to cook with firewood. Looking for viable, safe solutions, we started a project of building eco stoves.
“I feel so happy and proud with this stove. This Community Home serves the community and I was very affected by the lack of gas and electricity. I had stove my husband built, but I was always afraid to cook there and risk burning ourselves. This stove is beautiful, I can cook and the food remains hot for hours. We have 31 people, between children and adults, who come every day ... in small groups due to Covid ... you can't imagine the happiness I feel and how proud I am. The children have celebrated as much as I; it's such a big achievement. My mother, who lives with me and is 90 years old, is happy and says she always dreamt of something like this, but never thought it would come true.” - Carolina – Palmarito Bajo
The eco stoves are safe, need less firewood than improvised stoves, minimise smoke inhalation and make the work easier and safer for the women who continue to provide food and care to the children of their communities. ... See more

MUCURUBÁ
Through Armando, worried about his community, we hear about children suffering from malnutrition in Mucurubá, a community in the Andes. We go there and a high percentage of the children we see are diagnosed with malnutrition or are at risk of it. Thamar offers her home to prepare daily food for those most in need …and that starts the programme, with the support of our team in Mérida, that today supports 35 children and creates a focus for the community. It is cold and there are few coats, and many socks with holes. Our collaborators in Madrid and Barcelona raise funds thanks to the solidarity of many to send warm clothes for the children... a network of solidarity that grows, supports and fills with joy. ... See more

MAURICA, a humble but motivated community that learns to detect malnutrition in order to tackle it.

The increasing difficulties for families to travel, due to cost and lack of fuel, and the increasing child malnutrition, lead us to carry on creating new support centres in hard to reach communities in need. There, with volunteers from the community that organise themselves, learn and work, we support children suffering from malnutrition. In Maurica, under a tent, we are regularly providing nutritional and food support to over 80 children. ... See more

In a difficult year, which added a pandemic to the humanitarian emergency, thanks to the cooperation, solidarity and volunteer work of many, we were able to continue to build spaces of protection and hope.
Thank you to everyone that has made this possible! ... See more