{"id":377819,"date":"2026-06-28T02:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377819\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T02:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:14:10","slug":"fresno-family-collecting-life-saving-supplies-to-be-sent-to-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377819\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno family collecting life-saving supplies to be sent to Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByKerry Mannix  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, June 28, 2026 1:47AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fresno family collecting life-saving supplies to be sent to Venezuela\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Following rare twin earthquakes in Venezuela that left thousands dead and injured, a Fresno family is collecting life-saving supplies to be sent to the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Our community in the Central Valley, it was asking me &#8216;Let&#8217;s do something! Let&#8217;s do something!&#8217; I tried to help put everybody together to send these donations. Because right now, this is a crucial moment,&#8221; said Mary Bastos, who is from Venezuela and has lived in Fresno for 9 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bastos and her husband are currently receiving donations at their home at 4678 N Safford Ave near Old Fig Garden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Starting Sunday, donations can also be dropped off at the Catedral Episcopal Santiago Apostol. Bastos said she will help receive donations there from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She is asking for donations including medical supplies and baby supplies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Global Empowerment Mission will pick up donations on July 5th to bring to Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByKerry Mannix Sunday, June 28, 2026 1:47AM Following rare twin earthquakes in Venezuela that left thousands dead and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[152928,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-377819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-152928","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}