Clean Water Access for the Children of Venezuela

The Covid 19 pandemic continues to affect many to date, especially in Venezuela, where the vaccination programme has not been close to enough, as there are severe shortages of vaccines. 

According to official figures, Venezuela has administered at least 4,000,000 doses of COVID vaccines so far, asumming every person needs 2 doses, that’s enough to have vaccinated about 7% of the country’s population.

To make matters worse the health care system was not fit to respond to a pandemic and is still precarious and not well equiped.

There are no clear directions from the government to hep contain the pandemic. There are no policies or aides to help those affected to work from home or have any form of relief.

Mandatory isolation is close to impossible as the population depends in the informal and day to day forms of income. 

Thanks to your generous donations we have been able to continue to carry out our WASH programme, efficiently and effectively.

We have been able to distribute another lot of 47 cylinder water tanks (560L) and  4 big water  tanks (5000L) for the proper storage  of water to our partners across Venezuela.

We have overseen the distribution and proper assembly of 17 community water filters and 5 ceramic filters to our partners NGO’s, that will aid in the continuation of their programmes during the next 5 years.

We have supervised the correct usage and maintenance of 157 water tanks, 26 community water filters and 91 ceramic filters, since July 2020 that continue to work as an important piece in the implementation of our WASH programme.

During these extra difficult times for the children of Venezuela your help is more important than ever.

The gift of clean water allows soup kitchens, nutritional recovery programmes and medical programmes run by our partners, to continue their operations amidst the pandemic.

Our aim is to expand this much needed programme, so we can continue to bring this vital  resource to many more children to Reduce Covid 19 transmission, improve their Health and Wellbeing and reduce poverty and inequality.

A year has passed since the start of the COVID 19 pandemic, and although in many places it seems like we are getting a grip on this terrible disease, sadly right now in Venezuela it is at its worst.

In a country where there is an established complex humanitarian crisis, a collapsed economy and no effective policies in place to stop the transmission, there is little hope of controlling the pandemic. Cases have spiked during the last weeks, both public and private hospitals are at maximum capacity, with little resources to battle this calamity, mortality from COVID-19 is at its highest taking a big toll on many and specially on doctors, nurses and medical personnel.

In order to get a grip on infection rates, stricter quarantine measures have been imposed, which will help reduce transmission of the virus, but will have a negative impact in many of the much-needed programmes that provide live saving help to the children in Venezuela.

Our commitment to facilitate and improve the operations of our partners is now more important than ever and that is why over the last few months with your contribution we have expanded our WASH programme with the purchase of 17 community water filters, 2 mission water filters which will be installed in rural underprivileged communities with little access to potable water across the country, where our local partners run a range of programmes to help improve the lives of the children of Venezuela.

We have also bought and distributed 4 water tanks of different capacities, which allow the different programmes ran by our local partners to store water properly, which will help them not only to continue their operations, but to do so more safely and efficiently broadening their capacity to help more children.

With your help our WASH infrastructure programme facilitates the continuation of soup kitchens, nutritional recovery programmes and medical programmes run by our partners, it improves the Health and Wellbeing of the children, Reduces Covid 19 transmission, improving  poverty and inequality.

Thank you for your continuous support,

The CHAMOS Team

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