Every month, part of what comes in goes to Venezuela.

What happened

On 24 June 2026, during the Battle of Carabobo holiday, two earthquakes struck Venezuela 39 seconds apart. The first, magnitude 7.2, was centred on the San Felipe, Yumare and Montalbán axis. The second, magnitude 7.5, was centred 17 kilometres west of Catia La Mar, off the coast of La Guaira. That is why La Guaira took the worst of it. It is the strongest earthquake in Venezuela since the San Narciso quake of 1900.

As of 10 August 2026, the official count is 6,301 dead and 73,356 hospital attendances. As of 3 August, 16,740 injuries were attributed to the earthquakes. All of these figures are still moving, which is why each one carries its date.

There is no official figure for the missing. Estimates run from 1,579, a neighbourhood registry covering La Guaira only, to more than 50,000, per the UN in late June. Venezuela's last census was in 2011, so there is no baseline for how many people were on that coast on a holiday evening. We are not going to pick a number. It cannot be verified.

Why a monthly commitment and not a one-off donation

Because the emergency is not over, but the attention is fading. Most foreign rescue teams have already left. The UN humanitarian appeal for Venezuela is 41.9% funded, with a gap of US$540.9 million. The IFRC appeal, planned as a 24-month operation, stood at 25.19% on 23 July.

As of 6 August, roughly 212,000 people had accessed humanitarian assistance, against a target of 1.3 million over six months. That is about 16%. A one-off donation lands at the peak of media coverage, which has already passed. A monthly commitment lands afterwards, which is when it is missing.

Why we are not naming organizations yet

Because we have not personally vetted them, and saying otherwise would be a lie. Donating to Venezuela is genuinely hard: a law requires NGOs to complete a registration that UN experts describe as impossible due to the government's administrative silence, and which they publicly called to repeal on 19 July 2026. There are documented seizures of supplies collected by citizens. And there is measured fraud: 212 earthquake-themed domains registered between 24 and 28 June, 93% of them with no registrant contact, some soliciting crypto-only donations.

What we do commit to is publishing a monthly report, on this page, with the exact destination of the money: who received it, how much, and why they were chosen. The first one goes up at the end of September 2026. If we cannot show that, the commitment is worth nothing.

Check on us

Transparencia Venezuela maintains rutadeayuda.org, a public, real-time registry of humanitarian aid entering the country and who is sending it, with open-format data and a form for reporting unindexed donations. Use it on us, and on anyone else who claims to be helping.

What this is not

It is not a campaign. There is no goal, no progress bar, and we are not going to use this as a sales argument. If you subscribe, subscribe because the content is useful to you. The share that goes out goes out either way, whether you notice or not.