NGOs More Vital Than Ever In Helping With Venezuela s Worsening Humanitarian Crisis
Simón Bolívar Foundation panels cite COVID-19 as accelerating the country s deteriorating health, food and economic security, and underscore gap in humanitarian funding
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HOUSTON, Dec. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ NGOs and other private philanthropic groups are increasingly critical in helping address the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, according to three diverse panels of leading experts recently convened in Houston via webinar by the Simón Bolívar Foundation.
Panelists from the international development and humanitarian relief sector pointed out that while the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated Latin America, increasing poverty throughout the region, Venezuela s suffering is dramatically worse due to the ongoing economic collapse that preceded the COVID outbreak. Hyperinflation, a shattered private sector, dwindling foreign ex