Venezuela quake survivors cherish kindness of strangers
Queues to receive aid in Venezuela’s La Guaira get longer every day, as people made homeless by two horrific earthquakes last week have nowhere else to go.
Ordinary Venezuelans have taken matters into their own hands following last week’s twin tremors that killed almost 2,000 people and affected over 15,000 more, according to official figures.
Donations and volunteers from across the country have swept into the hardest-hit state of La Guaira, which authorities have declared a “disaster zone.”
Private vehicles distribute everything from water and food to toilet paper and soap, while trucks belonging to the World Central Kitchen NGO trundle through the coastal city.
