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Medical aid arrives in Caracas, Venezuela.

Venezuela Earthquakes 2026

Critical Medical Aid Arrives in Venezuela to Support Patient Care, Post-Earthquake

A critical shipment of medical aid has arrived in Venezuela to treat patients impacted by last month’s devastating earthquakes. On Saturday, 25 pallets of medical aid, totaling more ...

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Venezuela Earthquakes 2026

Direct Relief COO Craig Redmond on Venezuela’s Earthquake and the Power of Local Disaster Response

When a magnitude 9.3 earthquake struck just off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia in 2004, triggering a tsunami and killing more than 200,000 people within 20 minutes, Craig Redmond quickly ...

Operational Update

PPE, Medical Aid Reaches DRC Health Workers on Ebola Frontlines

Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 436 shipments of requested medical aid to 46 U.S. states and territories and 20 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 17 million ...