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<\/p>\nSarai said Ottawa will match donations that were made between June 25 and July 14.<\/p>\n
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\u201cA lot of Canadian organizations with grassroots connections will be able to raise those funds and give (people their) needs, from food to shelter, to medicine, to clothing and anything else that\u2019s essential,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Officials report that as of Tuesday, 1,943 people have been killed in Venezuela and 10,571 have been injured. They urged the public to share only government information about the crisis.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press reports the government has been tight-lipped about victims and survivors while offering no official count of missing people, leaving ordinary Venezuelans struggling to find relatives.<\/p>\n
Many have turned to WhatsApp groups and non-governmental digital databases to report their loved ones as missing. One such registry listed at least 43,220 people as missing, the AP reported.<\/p>\n
Tiffany Baggetta, who leads the Humanitarian Coalition, said all 12 member organizations are working non-stop to respond to emergency needs and help people sleeping in open spaces.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Government of Canada\u2019s commitment to match donations will help turn Canadians\u2019 generosity into urgent action, bringing critical relief, hope and dignity to children and families who need it most,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
Humanity and Inclusion Canada \u2014 formerly Handicap International \u2014 is one of the charities in the coalition. It says there is a devastating shortage of supplies in Venezuela.<\/p>\n
\u201cHealth care staff are working with their bare hands and without equipment. They are performing amputations without an anesthetic because the anesthetic has run out,\u201d wrote Andreina Jota, a member of the group\u2019s team assessing needs in the hard-hit La Guaira region.<\/p>\n
She warned that \u201chospitals currently only have the resources to care for people in critical condition.\u201d<\/p>\n
The funding is in addition to the $5 million in humanitarian aid Ottawa announced last Thursday for emergency relief efforts in Venezuela. Global Affairs Canada says that funding has secured more than 5,700 emergency relief items, such as emergency food, water, sanitation and health services, and protection and logistics services.<\/p>\n
Sarai said the funding will not go to Venezuela\u2019s government. Canada considers Venezuela\u2019s government to be illegitimate and undemocratic and \u201cone of the primary sources of geopolitical tension and instability in the Western Hemisphere,\u201d according to a Global Affairs Canada online country profile.<\/p>\n
While Sarai said he\u2019s \u201cconfident\u201d Venezuela will rebound from the crisis, he said it\u2019s unfortunate that the heaviest impacts of natural disasters often fall on poorer people.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tragic, but with tragedy you always see a resilience, the community coming together, putting their differences aside, working hand in hand, and rescuing people first, helping support them in the interim and then rebuilding thereafter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m hoping that Mother Nature is kinder to the area and doesn\u2019t do anything further.\u201d<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 30, 2026.<\/p>\n
Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarai said Ottawa will match donations that were made between June 25 and July 14. \u201cA lot of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-772459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}