OCHA reiterated its goal of serving 5.1 million people with unmet basic needs this year and that, of the total benefited so far, some received more than one form of help, which does not mean that all their needs have been resolved.
More than two million Venezuelans received humanitarian aid between January and September of this year, according to figures released this Tuesday the 29th by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), one of the United Nations agencies.
During these nine months, UN agencies, as well as the Red Cross, 83 local and 29 international non-governmental organizations implemented humanitarian projects in 299 of the country’s 335 municipalities.
According to the report, 59% of the people who received aid are women – among them 77,000 pregnant or lactating –, within a total that also includes 94,000 members of indigenous communities, 154,000 older adults and just over a million children. and adolescents.
Until September, the areas that reported the greatest delivery of aid and donations were health, food security, nutrition, protection, water, sanitation and hygiene, and education.
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OCHA reiterated its goal of serving 5.1 million people with unmet basic needs this year and that, of the total number benefited so far, some received more than one form of help, which does not mean that all their shortcomings have been resolved.
Humanitarian aid reached 2.7 million Venezuelans in 2023, when the country began to consolidate its incipient economic growth, which began at the end of 2021, after a deep economic crisis in which there was a general shortage of food and medicine.
With information from EFE agency
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