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Dear Friend,
For days, a mother named Luz Mari desperately searched for her missing 3-year-old son.
She searched hospitals and shelters throughout La Guaira and Caracas, crying, praying and refusing to give up hope.
Finally, she received the news she had been praying for: Rescuers had pulled her little boy alive from the rubble with several other children.
After days of fear and uncertainty, Luz Mari was able to hold her son in her arms again.
It was the answer to her prayers—but it was not the end of their crisis.
Their home was completely destroyed. They had nowhere familiar to return to and no way to provide many of the basic things her little boy still needed.
I recently returned from Venezuela, and the destruction is difficult to describe. Some apartment buildings had collapsed into piles of rubble. Others were still standing, but their exterior walls were gone. From the street, I could look directly into bedrooms and living rooms where families had built their lives.
Thousands of those families are now living in tents with nowhere else to go.
The cameras have left Venezuela, but the families who lost everything are still there.
When I recently spoke with Dan Dillon on the Not the Bee podcast, he said, “We want our listeners to know what great work you guys do.”
I am grateful for the opportunity to share why this work must continue.
Convoy of Hope had a team inside Venezuela when the earthquakes struck, and we immediately began delivering food and clean water. We are still there today, with millions of meals on the way, along with bedding, hygiene supplies, baby items and other necessities.
One survivor told us:
“If it weren’t for you and those who support us, we wouldn’t have anything to eat … or even a glass of water. Thanks to that, we are alive today.”
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