Venezuela

GOAL has worked in Venezuela since 2022, supporting vulnerable communities affected by economic instability and humanitarian challenges. Through local partnerships and community-based approaches, GOAL works to improve access to essential services and strengthen community resilience. In 2025, GOAL reached 34,762 people experiencing poverty and exclusion across Venezuela.

On 24 June 2026, two powerful earthquakes measuring magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela's northern coast just 40 seconds apart, causing widespread destruction and further compounding an already severe humanitarian situation.

In response, GOAL expanded its humanitarian response to support communities affected by the disaster. GOAL is working with local partners to deliver emergency health services, hygiene kits and essential non-food items, including blankets, emergency shelter materials, mosquito nets, water containers and kitchen sets, to help families affected by the earthquakes.

What we do in Venezuela

Emergency Response

Resilient Health

Supporting communities in urgent need

Following the devasting earthquakes on June 24th, GOAL rapidly mobilised its teams and local partners to assess the humanitarian impact and identify the communities most in need of assistance. A Rapid Needs Assessment (RNA) was carried out in collaboration with community leaders, local authorities and affected communities to understand immediate priorities and inform the emergency response.

Working alongside five local NGO partners across the Capital District, Miranda, Carabobo and Yaracuy states, GOAL identified critical humanitarian needs, including psychological first aid and psychosocial support, access to safe drinking water, essential hygiene supplies. Assessments also highlighted increased public health risks associated with disrupted water and sanitation services following the earthquakes.

To support the emergency response, GOAL is delivering lifesaving assistance to communities affected by the earthquakes. This includes protecting the health and wellbeing of earthquake-affected communities, providing hygiene kits and safe drinking water to affected households, and distributing essential non-food items including blankets, mosquito nets, water containers, kitchen sets and emergency shelter materials, to families affected by the earthquakes.

Strengthening access to essential, life-saving services

GOAL continues to respond to Venezuela’s protracted humanitarian and health challenges by strengthening access to essential, life-saving services for vulnerable communities.

This included improving the availability and access of high-quality, respectful, and person- centred maternal, newborn, and child health care in fragile settings, ensuring safer pregnancy, childbirth, and early childhood outcomes in fragile contexts.

GOAL also supports progress towards HIV epidemic control through enhanced prevention, diagnosis, and treatment access and viral load suppression for women, men, and priority populations.

2026 Earthquakes

On 24 June, Venezuela was struck by two powerful earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5, just 40 seconds apart, making it the country's most severe seismic disaster in 125 years.
The north-central region was hardest hit, particularly Caracas and La Guaira, with significant impacts also reported in Miranda, Carabobo, Yaracuy, Falcón and Aragua.
The earthquakes have killed more than 4,000 people, injured over 16,000, displaced nearly 13,000 and left almost 18,000 people without homes. Tens of thousands of people remain unaccounted for.
GOAL teams are delivering lifesaving assistance to affected communities. This includes protecting the health and wellbeing of earthquake-affected communities, providing hygiene kits and safe drinking water to affected households, and distributing essential non-food items including blankets, mosquito nets, water containers, kitchen sets and emergency shelter materials, to families affected by the earthquakes.

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Our story in numbers

2022

GOAL Venezuela begins

34,762

People reached in 2025

16

In-country staff

7.9 million

People in need of humanitarian assistance

Stories from Venezuela

GOAL Receives Irish Aid Emergency Supplies for Earthquake Response in Venezuela

25.06.2026