The American company Amazon announced the implementation of an airlift, in alliance with the United States Department of State, the Airlink association and the UN World Food Program (WFP), for the distribution of humanitarian aid to Venezuela.

This measure seeks to establish specific guidelines and strategies for the distribution of aid to the South American country after the earthquakes of last June 24.

Through a statement, Bettina Stix, director of Community Impact at Amazon, indicated: “The airlift will channel supplies to trusted nonprofit organizations operating on the ground in Venezuela so they can immediately use them to serve the most affected people.”

For her part, Stephanie Hochstetter, director of the World Food Program in Venezuela, stressed that her staff “will coordinate the distribution and storage of aid that arrives on Amazon flights.”

Likewise, Tommy Pigott, spokesperson for the State Department, assured that “this will help ensure that vital assistance reaches Venezuela as quickly as possible.”

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Through its World Food Programme, the United Nations hopes to collect $50 million in aid to assist some 500,000 people affected by the earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24.

Stephanie Hochstetter, head of the organization in the country, stated from La Guaira/Vargas State—the most devastated coastal region—that this amount “will not cover the entire disaster.”

According to the official, who spoke via videoconference, the WFP has already distributed emergency rations to thousands of people in the area. She also highlighted that the UN agency “currently has 3,000 metric tons of food stored in the country, enough to feed more than 10,000 families for two months.”

Hochstetter added that the program “is working on local purchases and coordinating with its teams in Colombia the rapid transfer of additional reserves. The goal is to scale up the response to cover half a million people in the coming months.”

The priority is to provide those affected with food, drinking water, shelter, medical assistance, and access to basic services. These efforts will complement the organization’s response during the earthquakes, when it “released $15 million in emergency funds and deployed more than 2,200 rescuers from 25 countries.”

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