Past Programmes

Healing Venezuela began collecting discarded but still usable medical supplies from surgeries and hospitals across the UK and Europe, shipping more than 12 tons to Venezuela. At that time, we partnered with 50  hospitals and small health centres throughout the country. According to rough estimates, over 12,000 people benefited from this programme.

At the height of the humanitarian crisis, insulin was unavailable in state hospitals. We collaborated with Guerreros Azules, a local NGO, to provide insulin, insulin meters and strips to children and nutritional training for parents from low-income backgrounds.

In remote areas of Venezuela, indigenous communities, while not completely isolated, have been neglected by the government. In collaboration with CUMIS, a local NGO, we sponsored four medical campaigns in indigenous communities, benefiting over 2,000 people.

The Venezuelan crisis has had a profound impact on the mental wellbeing of the population. In collaboration with the Art of Living, an international NGO, we delivered workshops in schools and hospitals to teach children, patients, and staff how to manage stress through breathing and meditation techniques. In total, over 4,200 people learned these valuable techniques.

For serious conditions such as cancer or HIV, high-spec medical tests areot available in state hospitals, and their costs in private healthcare are prohibitive. We partnered with Fundacion Vida, a local NGO, to provide free high-cost tests to low income patients. Through this programme, we helped over 130 cancer patients, half of whom were children to have an accurate diagnostic and therefore treatment to face this difficult disease.

HIV SURVEILLANCE. HIV medication is scarce and, when available, prohibitively expensive in Venezuela. This has led to the HIV virus mutating and creating resistance to available medications. In partnership with Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientifica, a research centre in Venezuela, we sponsored a programme to identify HIV medication resistance across the country during 3 years, providing invaluable information for patients medical treatment.

Since 2018, Healing Venezuela has been providing two meals and a healthy snack a day for children at risk of malnutrition in impoverished areas of Caracas and a village in Sucre State called Guaraunos. More than 300 children and their families have benefited from this programme with the added benefit that, as it runs in school premises, attendance has increased remarkably. To date, we have delivered + 460,000 meals to children at risk reducing malnutrition to 5% in the areas where we operate.

The economic and social situation in Venezuela though has improved, is still impacting millions of people, especially those from low income background. To tackle a protracted crisis, is necessary to create new sources of income for the local population. To transition from direct humanitarian aid to sustainability, we partnered with a local NGO, Fundacion San Jose, to provided women skills and basic supplies to generate their own income so that our intervention in the village can become sustainable