{"id":294463,"date":"2026-07-13T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/294463\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:08:13","slug":"venezuelas-children-need-us-now-brooklyn-bridge-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/294463\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s Children Need Us Now | Brooklyn Bridge Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent earthquake in Venezuela has left entire communities devastated. Families have lost their homes, children have lost their routines, and many are now facing life without parents or loved ones. Emergency aid is reaching those in need, but the scale of the tragedy is immense. Every contribution via <a href=\"https:\/\/aidforlifeintl.org\/venezuela-earthquake-emergency-response-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Aid for Life<\/a> helps provide food, clean water, shelter, medical care, and protection for children and families whose lives changed in an instant.<\/p>\n<p>Behind this effort is AID FOR LIFE, a New York based humanitarian organization founded by Venezuelan humanitarian and local dad Jes\u00fas Aguais. Inspired by the strength of the communities that have long welcomed him in New York, Aguais has dedicated his life to helping families facing unimaginable hardship. His commitment to children and the belief that every child deserves safety, hope, and the chance to dream has guided the organization\u2019s work for decades. Today, that same commitment is bringing life saving aid to the children and families affected by the earthquake in Venezuela. Find out more and donate <a href=\"https:\/\/aidforlifeintl.org\/venezuela-earthquake-emergency-response-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-79072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Venezuela-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"875\" height=\"583\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-79073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Venezuela-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-79076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Venezuela-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"875\" height=\"652\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent earthquake in Venezuela has left entire communities devastated. Families have lost their homes, children have lost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-294463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}