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Venezuela: Red Cross responds as needs emerge in the aftermath of powerful back-to-back earthquakes

Caracas/Panama City/Geneva, 25 June 2026 — Two powerful earthquakes struck north-central Venezuela on the evening of 24 June, less than a minute apart: a 7.2 magnitude foreshock at around 6:04 p.m. local time, followed 39 seconds later by a 7.5 magnitude mainshock, with epicentres in the Yaracuy region, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).The earthquakes caused structural collapses and damage to homes and businesses in Caracas and across several states, with particularly serious impact reported in La Guaira and Greater Caracas. National authorities have declared a state of emergency, suspended classes and non-essential activities, ordered preventive evacuations, activated search-and-rescue operations and set up reception centres for people affected, while hospitals receive the injured.Power, telecommunications and transport have been disrupted, and critical damage has been reported to essential health and transport infrastructure, leaving public services intermittent or interrupted in some areas. Damage assessments remain preliminary, and the full human impact is not yet known while strong aftershocks are posing additional risks to affected communities and to the teams responding.The Venezuelan Red Cross is operational and responding. Its nationwide network of hospitals and polyclinics remains active and continues to deliver care. The National Society has activated rescue teams to support evacuation and search efforts and deployed four assessment teams overnight to carry out rapid evaluations in the worst-affected areas, while mobilising prepositioned relief supplies. Although it has reported critical damage to its own National Headquarters, the Venezuelan Red Cross is accounting for the safety of its staff and volunteers, activating security protocols and sharing earthquake safety guidance with communities — even as many of its volunteers respond while facing this emergency in their own neighbourhoods.While assessments continue, the most urgent anticipated needs are search and rescue, emergency shelter for families whose homes have been damaged or destroyed, and emergency health care, including trauma care and psychosocial support. Safe water and sanitation and essential household items are also expected to be priorities in the hours and days ahead. With communications disrupted and many families separated, Red Cross Societies in Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras and Argentina — countries home to large Venezuelan communities — have already activated their restoring family links services, helping people search for news of their loved ones.The International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent Societies is activating its response mechanisms, including its Disaster Response Emergency Fund (IFRC-DREF), as more information becomes available.Available content of the Venezuela Red Cross response:Photo collection: https://shared.ifrc.org/collections/~965823c921Video:https://x.com/CruzRojaVe/status/2070015232089420141For more information and to arrange interviews, contact: [email protected] PanamaSusana Arroyo +507 69993199In GenevaTommaso Della Longa +41 79 708 4367 | Paolo Cravero +41 79 894 83 96

Venezuela: Earthquake 2026

Two powerful earthquakes have struck Venezuela, severely affecting Gran Caracas and La Guaira, and causing widespread destruction across the capital and surrounding areas. The Venezuelan Red Cross is on the ground, carrying out search and rescue operations, assisting the injured, and assessing urgent and growing needs.IFRC has launched an emergency appeal to support the response activities of the Venezuelan Red Cross. Donations are made to the IFRC, which will channel resources to its member National Society and ensure accountability for their use.Donate today to help IFRC and VRC scale up their response and bring life-saving assistance to those who need it most.

Health and Care Training Platform

The Health and Care Training Platform is the IFRC’s central hub for health and care capacity strengthening. It brings together training courses, guidance, tools, and learning resources developed from across the Red Cross and Red Crescent Network. Through a single point of access, the platform offers a diverse range of technical and cross-cutting learning opportunities designed to help volunteers, staff, and partners build the knowledge and skills needed to improve community health outcomes worldwide.

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IFRC 2025 Annual Report

Welcome to the IFRC’s Annual Report for 2025. This report details how the IFRC secretariat supported the principled local humanitarian action of 191 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in 2025, delivering high-impact locally led support at the community level, where it is needed the most. The report takes an in-depth look at how the IFRC network not only responded to disasters and crises in 2025, but also how resilience was built and enhanced in the face of escalating global challenges. The 2025 Annual Report includes a pull-out section dedicated to the importance of the Regular Resources - unearmarked donations – that enable the IFRC to provide vital support to National Societies at country, regional and global levels.

Far from the global headlines: Humanity on the move in Djibouti

by Kate Forbes, IFRC PresidentOnly two weeks ago, I was walking through the streets of Solferino during the Fiaccolata, surrounded by thousands of Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers carrying candles in memory of a simple but profound idea: that humanity must prevail, even in the darkest moments.And just last week, in the deserted roads of Djibouti, I was reminded that humanity is something we choose. Every day.Here, every single day, the staff and volunteers of the Djibouti Red Crescent bring humanity to people who need it most.Djibouti is home to just over one million people. Situated at the crossroads of Africa, the Middle East and some of the world’s busiest migration routes, it is a country facing its own challenges: chronic poverty, the growing impacts of climate change, and economic hardship. Yet it remains a rare island of stability in an otherwise fragile region.That stability has made Djibouti a critical corridor along the Eastern Migration Route. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people cross its territory, hoping to reach the Gulf countries in search of work and, for some, eventually Europe.Last year alone, around half a million people travelled through Djibouti - equivalent to half the country’s own population. Yet this humanitarian reality rarely makes international headlines.Beyond the numbers: individual storiesBehind that staggering number are individual lives. Around one in five people on the move are women. Many are children travelling alone or with limited support. Along the journey, they endure hunger, dehydration, exhaustion, exploitation, violence and profound psychological trauma. Their stories are often invisible, but their suffering is not.Today, I joined one of the Djibouti Red Crescent’s mobile teams in Dikhil, a town in the western Dikhil region of Djibouti, bordering with Ethiopia. Before sunrise, volunteers loaded vehicles with water, food, hygiene kits and dignity kits before heading into the desert. At this time of year, temperatures regularly climb to between 45 and 47 degrees Celsius. Walking for days under such conditions is almost unimaginable.They had been walking for eight daysOur first encounter was with a group of 10 young men. Among them was a fourteen-year-old boy. They had been walking for eight days. Their faces carried the unmistakable signs of dehydration, hunger and exhaustion. There was little need for words to understand what they had endured.Later, we met another group - sixteen or seventeen women who had been walking together for five days. They had not started their journey together; they had simply found one another along the road. Strangers brought together by a shared search for hope.As I listened to their stories, one woman quietly told us that she had left her one-year-old daughter behind.She did not leave because she wanted to. She left because she believed that somewhere ahead there might be a chance to build a better future for her child and her family.It is impossible not to wonder what kind of hope is powerful enough to make a mother walk away from her baby, trusting that separation today may mean opportunity tomorrow.Every person we met carried a different story. There is no single profile of a person on the move. Some are escaping conflict. Others are fleeing poverty. Some seek employment. Others simply seek survival.Not all will reach the destinations they dream about. Some will find work in Djibouti and decide to stay. Some will be unable to continue their journey. Some will return home and attempt the same journey again - twice, three times, or even more - because hope often survives where opportunity does not.Throughout these journeys, the Djibouti Red Crescent remains one of the very few humanitarian organizations consistently present for people on the move.Food, water and dignityWith support from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations(ECHO), the Italian Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), its staff and volunteers provide far more than food and water. They offer dignity. They offer compassion. Above all, they remind people who are often forgotten that they have not been abandoned.Humanitarian work is often measured in numbers: meals distributed, litres of water provided, people assisted.But today reminded me that its true value is measured differently. It is found in a volunteer offering a bottle of water before asking any questions. It is found in listening to someone’s story without judgment. It is found in recognizing the humanity of someone whose name may never appear in a report or a headline.The work of the Djibouti Red Crescent is remarkable, but it cannot continue without sustained support. Migration along this route may not dominate global attention, yet the humanitarian needs are immense and growing. If we believe that every life has equal value, then our solidarity cannot depend on whether a crisis captures the world’s headlines.In the quiet places of the world, far from the spotlight, humanity is still walking. The least we can do is make sure it is never walking alone.

IFRC 2025 Regular Resources

Unearmarked funds - which we call Regular Resources - are critical to the IFRC’s work. Support of this kind ensures that we can carry out our core functions of strategic and operational coordination, National Society development and humanitarian diplomacy, all underpinned by accountability and agility. This report demonstrates the impact that Regular Resources had on the work of the IFRC network in 2025. This includes examples of how Regular Resources powered support for local humanitarian action at global, regional and country levels, alongside profiles of some of the IFRC’s country-level delegations and staff members around the world.

IFRC 2025 Annual Report Executive Summary

This executive summary of the 2025 IFRC Annual report reveals how the IFRC secretariat supported the principled local humanitarian action of 191 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in 2025, delivering high-impact locally led support at the community level. Read the full report for an in-depth look at how the IFRC network not only responded to disasters and crises in 2025, but also how resilience was built and enhanced in the face of escalating global challenges. The 2025 Annual Report includes a pull-out section dedicated to Regular Resources - unearmarked donations – that enable the IFRC to provide vital support to National Societies at country, regional and global levels.

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