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Keeping the faith during the Venezuela food crisis

19/10/2018 Conflicts and Disasters, Food, Latin America, Malnutrition, Venezuela by Francesca Frezza

The Venezuela food crisis is affected people in unexpected ways. Not only has it left thousands of people hungry and many children at risk of malnutrition - it's now threatening the production of communion hosts. Nuns in Caracas tell us how people are so hungry they're eating the scraps from making the communion host.

Venezuela Crisis

7/09/2018 Emergencies, Food, Health, Latin America, Malnutrition, Migration, Refugees, Venezuela by Francesca Frezza

Find out how Caritas is helping vulnerable Venezuelans with food and health care during the current economic crisis.

Venezuela food crisis: Nourishing childhoods

3/09/2018 Aid Success Story, Food, Latin America, Malnutrition, Venezuela by Francesca Frezza

Read about Yusmarely and her children who are struggling because of the Venezuela food crisis. The children were at risk of malnutrition so Caritas Venezuela volunteers gave them supplements.

Venezuela crisis: Caritas volunteers restore health and hope

2/09/2018 Emergencies, Food, Health, Latin America, Malnutrition, Migration, Refugees, Venezuela, Volunteers by Francesca Frezza

Monitoring children at risk of malnutrition Maria Mendoza opens the doors to her driveway in Punta de Mulato, Venezuela in early July. She’s preparing for a weekly growth monitoring session for children under five. Caritas volunteers who have been inspired to help during the Venezuela crisis carry chairs and tables from the Church grounds. A ...

Working towards a better Venezuela

26/04/2018 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Latin America, Malnutrition, Venezuela by Caritas Communications

Scarcity of staple foods is touching every aspect of life in Venezuela. In the lead up to Easter, the Colombian Church donated 250,000 communion wafers to the Catholic Church in Venezuela.

Restoring children’s health in Venezuela

17/04/2018 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Latin America, Malnutrition, Venezuela by Caritas Communications

Reports reveal a rapidly growing public health crisis in Venezuela where 68 percent of the children show varying degrees of malnutrition and 48 percent of the selected expectant mothers are at risk of malnutrition.

Ministry of hope in Venezuela

9/04/2018 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Latin America, Venezuela by Caritas Communications

Galloping inflation has reached 2,735 percent. The Venezuelan economy is crippled. Its citizens are spiraling deeper into hunger. Caritas Venezuela has stepped forward to provide medical, nutritional and spiritual care to those in need.

Witnessing Venezuela’s hunger

15/03/2018 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Latin America, Venezuela by Caritas Communications

By Suzanna Tkalec, Humanitarian Director at Caritas Internationalis I first saw her at a Caritas Venezuela malnutrition screening of hungry mothers and hungrier children in Santa Lucia. Health workers weighed children, checked their height, measured the shrinking circumferences of their bony arms, while she sat listlessly. A whisper of a child, at 4-years old, Angelys ...

Caritas on Venezuela

16/08/2017 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Latin America, Venezuela by Caritas Communications

Caritas is concerned about the worsening humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and the severe impact it is having on thousands of men, women and children and their ability to survive. Suzanna Tkalec, the Caritas Internationalis humanitarian director, said Venezuela is facing a worsening crisis with widening poverty, food and medicine shortages and alarming rates of child ...

Children face hunger crisis in Venezuela as malnutrition soars

16/05/2017 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Latin America, Malnutrition, Venezuela by Caritas Communications

Child malnutrition in parts of Venezuela is now at the level of a humanitarian crisis, warns a new report from the local Caritas agency. With the economy in freefall, shortages of food and medicine and soaring food prices, nearly half of children under five in areas monitored by Caritas are suffering from some degree of ...