📋 Tender Overview
The United Nations UN in coordination with national and local authorities is supporting the response to the emergency caused by the rainy season in Venezuela.With a focus on saving lives and assisting the most vulnerable people UN agencies are providing medicine psychosocial and educational support food and supplies and access to water among other types of immediate assistance.In addition to the communities of Las Tejeras in the state of Aragua the UN is providing support in other states that are also being affected such as Anzotegui the Capital District Falcn La Guaira Mrida Tchira Trujillo and Zulia.The objective of the UN is to address in coordination with the authorities the most immediate needs of the affected population. This rainy season has been devastating because of the loss of life and because many people were left homeless and without a livelihood said Gianluca Rampolla del Tindaro UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Venezuela.From the first hours of the emergency the UN agencies expressed their commitment to support the people affected by the rains throughout the country.In Las Tejeras the response is focusing on the delivery by the Pan American Health OrganizationWorld Health Organization PAHOWHO together with the Ministry of Popular Power for Health supplies and medicines to treat around 8000 people in addition to drinking water tablets to purify water. UNAIDS for its part is monitoring so that people living with HIVAIDS have access to their treatment. PAHOWHO is also supporting mental health care with a team of psychologists deployed to the site and UNHCR has distributed habitat kits to 434 people most affected by the landslide. The World Food Program WFP will be supporting community kitchens with food contributions.In terms of education UNICEF in cooperation with the Ministry of Popular Power for Education is supporting the rapid and safe return to schools in the area. There it is giving psycho-emotional support to teachers and has given them educational kits and tools. In total 6500 children and adolescents and 450 teachers are benefiting.In other states that are suffering the impact of the rains WFP in coordination with the Ministry of Peoples Power for Interior Relations Justice and Peace and with the Governors provides assistance to 20000 people in La Guaira Mrida Tchira Trujillo and Zulia with basic necessities. The baskets which will be distributed for a period of up to three months also include water purification tablets. In the state of Sucre approximately 1000 people received food kits from the International Organization for Migration IOM.In Anzotegui UNICEF supported the installation of a portable water purifying plant that benefits 30000 people and IOM and PAHOWHO provided hygiene and water storage products to the Single Health Authority to care for nearly 4000 people. In Falcn UNICEF delivered hygiene kits menstrual management kits and water filters in several communities including in a temporary accommodation space. In Zulia the United Nations Population Fund UNFPA provided dignity kits to women in affected communities in coordination with local authorities and community leaders. In La Guaira UNHCR installed two modular accommodation units and provided habitat material while PAHOWHO will deliver vaccines and other medicines next week.In addition to the people affected the UN through WFP and UNHCR has supported frontline Civil Protection personnel firefighters and rescuers with kits and portable stores to reinforce their response operations in different states of the country.In addition to the efforts made to respond to the emergency within the framework of the Venezuelan Humanitarian Response Plan by the UN in support of the State and of national and international NGOs community associations and the Red Cross Movement they have also mobilized assistance to the most affected people including search and rescue and the distribution of food medicine drinking water and household goods and psychosocial support among others.As in all responses to an emergency the work of the UN and other humanitarian actors is governed by the principles of neutrality impartiality and humanity and works to complement the response of the State.
