{"id":347800,"date":"2026-07-21T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347800\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:46:07","slug":"gem-needs-south-florida-volunteers-through-friday-as-venezuela-aid-effort-marks-one-month-of-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347800\/","title":{"rendered":"GEM needs South Florida volunteers through Friday as Venezuela aid effort marks one month of deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/gem-president-back-south-florida-venezuela-earthquakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Global Empowerment Mission<\/a> is asking for more volunteers in South Florida through Friday to help sort and pack humanitarian aid boxes headed to Venezuela, as the organization approaches one month of continuous relief operations.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers are needed daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a break from noon to 1 p.m. Tasks include packing boxes and sorting pallets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The organization says lines have died down, making it easier to walk in, but those who want to register in advance can do so through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalempowermentmission.org\/volunteer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GEM&#8217;s website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday marks one month since GEM launched its Venezuela relief effort.<\/p>\n<p>As of July 20, the organization has completed 23 consecutive days of aid distribution across two sites in La Guaira, Venezuela, working alongside I Love Venezuela Foundation and local partner C\u00e1ritas Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>On that day alone, 66 pallets containing 4,290 kits were delivered to 10,725 people across the communities of Mamo and Caraballeda.<\/p>\n<p>Since the operation began, GEM says it has delivered 52,345 family necessity kits to 135,185 individuals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The total aid is valued at more than $8.9 million and weighs roughly 938 metric tons. Logistics have involved 20 planes, 25 containers in transit and 5 military landing crafts.<\/p>\n<p>Distributions are scheduled to continue July 21 across two additional La Guaira sites, including Mapa Mariche and El Palmar Oeste in Caraballeda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Global Empowerment Mission is asking for more volunteers in South Florida through Friday to help sort and pack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48959,28,30,29,807,4390,7194],"class_list":["post-347800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-earthquake","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-south-florida","tag-venezuela","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}