Venezuela is living one of the most profound Humanitarian crisis in the last two centuries. Once consider the richest country in South America, Venezuela now faces severe food and medicine shortages.

Venezuelan schools have shortened their hours because so many children are malnourished that they struggle to go through a full school day, many people have resorted to scavenging for food in dumpsters. About 9.6 million people eat two or fewer meals a day and 93 percent of the population cannot afford food; 75 percent of Venezuelans lost an average of 19 pounds in 2016. The cost of basic groceries is now about five times the minimum wage, and rising.

The health crisis in Venezuela is approaching levels comparable to the poorest nations, with naked women forced to give birth in a waiting room, patients treated on hospital floors and forecasts that hundreds of thousands of children are at risk of dying from malnutrition. Government data shows infant mortality rose by 30 percent in 2016. Hospitals are overcrowded with sick children while doctors don't have enough medicine or supplies to treat them. The Pharmaceutical Federation of Venezuela estimates the country is suffering from an 85 percent shortage of medicine.

The alarming scenario also includes a shortage of medicines for treating severe diseases like cancer, diabetes and high blood pressure, and for containing outbreaks of contagious diseases, such as malaria and diphtheria. Services are very limited in both public hospitals and private clinics, where shortages of supplies have reduced the number of beds available to little more than 25 percent of what the country needs, according to experts. Venezuelans often barter medicine, post pleas on social media, travel to neighboring countries if they can afford it, or line up for hours at pharmacies.

As the food/medicine crisis is worsening, Venezuela dives deeper into chaos. Many Venezuelans in the U.S.  and around the world are scrambling to send aid to their friends and family back home. But is not enough, we need your help to also be able to reach the less fortunate ones.

With your help, we can help thousands of Venezuelans, providing them with food, medical supplies and medicines. Venezuela needs you!