IHE Humanitarian Response Team member documenting the earthquake-collapsed buildings in La Guaira, Venezuela, with heavy machinery working in the background.

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Venezuela Earthquake Relief

IHE's Humanitarian Response Team works with local volunteers in Valencia, Caracas, and La Guaira, where the greatest need is in the tent camps. One mission was completed in July. The next leaves September 15.

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Mission report

What the July mission did

July 13–20, 2026 · Valencia, Caracas, La Guaira

From July 13 to 20, an IHE team worked alongside local volunteers in Valencia, Caracas, and La Guaira, reaching families displaced by the earthquake. The greatest need is in the tent camps, among them Ojitos de Chávez, where families with young children and older adults keep daily life going.

The team delivered infant formula, oral rehydration salts, non-perishable food, hygiene kits, and medical supplies, packed by hand into suitcases and handed over directly in the camps. The supplies are itemized in the mission's donation inventory, published below.

In the camps, the team also held art workshops with the children: markers, small canvases, and afternoons of drawing between the tents. The finished paintings traveled to "El Arte de la Resiliencia", the benefit auction supporting the relief fund.

None of this happens without the local volunteers who worked beside the team all week: organizing, turning needs into lists, making sure every suitcase reached the right hands. Every mission that follows is built on that partnership.

On video

The July mission on video

Footage from the team on the ground in Valencia, Caracas, La Guaira, and the camps.

Photo record

The mission in photographs

Every photograph below was taken by the team during the July mission. No stock imagery. The record runs from arrival and supplies to the deliveries, the art workshops, and the ground reality in La Guaira.

Watching the children paint in the middle of all that was the most moving moment of the mission.
Juan Candelario, Director of Operations

Arrival & supplies

Deliveries in the camps

Art workshops with the children

On the ground in La Guaira

Benefit auction

El Arte de la Resiliencia

The children of the camps painted 30 works in the July workshops. The paintings traveled to the United States in the team's suitcases.

Every work is open for offers from $100. All of it returns to the camps where the young artists live.

Meet the 30 works

Transparency

Every dollar documented

Every IHE mission publishes its donation inventory and its expense report. The actual documents, not summaries. Donations to the Venezuela fund are restricted: they pay for this relief work and nothing else.

Donation inventory · July mission (PDF)

The July expense report will be published when the accounting period closes.

Next mission

The September mission

Departs September 15, 2026 · About 10 days

Seven or more of us travel from the United States and Colombia, and local volunteers join us on the ground. We return to the same camps, with more hands and more to hand over.

Deliveries of medicine, hydration, and food
Physical and mental health care days
More art and play activities with the children

Fundraising goal

$10,000

When the $10,000 goal is met, the campaign expands to a $13,500 mission that adds physicians and health professionals traveling from the United States.

Updated July 24, 2026 · The campaign has just opened

Where the money goes

Travel & logistics: $3,300
Medicines & medical supplies: $2,500
Hydration & infant nutrition: $1,200
Non-perishable food: $1,500
Health days, children's activities & contingency: $2,400

Approximate figures, built from what things actually cost in July. The full budget is available to anyone who asks.

Support this mission

Donations to the Venezuela fund are restricted. They pay for this relief work and nothing else, and every purchase is documented.