Relief Efforts in Venezuela
CARE has been present in the Latin America and Caribbean region since 1954. CARE has been responding to the Venezuela migrant and refugee crisis with an approach sensitive to women and girls’ voice and leadership. CARE has been implementing emergency response interventions directly and through partners (in particular, women’s organizations) in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. CARE focuses its response on some of the most vulnerable forcibly displaced and host community members, especially women, girls, and young men.
CARE is responding in the areas of reproductive health, water, sanitation and hygiene, food and nutrition security, shelter, and cross-cutting voucher assistance. In every intervention, CARE aims to include up to 30% of hosting communities in order to bolster social cohesion.
Inside Venezuela, CARE is working both in Caracas and Miranda state. CARE is focusing its interventions through partners on vulnerable families, mainly female-headed households, families with children under age five and the elderly.