Venezuela Earthquake Emergency
Help families in Caracas rebuild and we'll stay with them until they do
On 24 June 2026, two powerful earthquakes struck northern Venezuela. Thousands of people lost their homes, their food stores, anywhere safe to turn. The Good Shepherd Sisters were already there. Centro Esperanza, a centre that has long supported women and families in Caracas, opened its doors as a shelter the same day the ground shook — because the people running it, and the trust between them and their community, were already in place.
Francis, one of the women now sheltering there, says simply: "I don't know how long I'll have to stay, but I know one thing — I don't want to go home."
Today, the sisters are sheltering displaced families and supporting around 150 women and 10 families affected by the disaster, distributing food, clean water, hygiene supplies and essential medicines to those who need them most.
An earthquake is over in seconds. What it leaves behind takes much longer to mend.
Once the first emergency has passed, families still have to find somewhere to live, return to work, send their children back to school — and that is precisely the time when most support quietly disappears. The Sisters' approach has always been to walk alongside people one at a time, for as long as it takes, not as long as the story stays in the news.
Your donation helps provide urgent relief
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What your gift will provide
- Safe shelter for displaced families
- Food and clean drinking water
- Mattresses, blankets and bedding
- Essential medicines and first aid
- Hygiene kits and basic necessities
- Continued care as families rebuild, for as long as it takes
Please give today. Stand with families in Venezuela beyond the emergency, for however long it takes them to rebuild their lives.
GSIF and Good Shepherd Sisters in Lebanon
The Good Shepherd Sisters programs in Lebanon serve 30,000 people every year in Mount Lebanon, Beirut and Bekaa Valley, providing shelter and protection to vulnerable women and girls survivors of violence or exploitation; social and psychological services for families, quality healthcare services at the St. Antoine Community Health Center in Beirut; education and safe spaces for recreational and after school activities for children. This dramatic emergency and increasing demand for aid and humanitarian support are causing even our essential services to collapse. Now, more than ever, it is important to support those most in need in Lebanon.
Watch the appeal from Sr. Antoinette and Dr Nancy Abi Assaf
from the Community Health Center in Beirut
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Venezuela Emergency
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Venezuela Emergency
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