A South Florida based organization is rushing to gather aid and supplies to send to Venezuela after powerful back-to-back earthquakes left at least 188 people dead and 1,500 people injured on Wednesday – and those numbers are expected to rise.
Doral-based Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) announced that it has activated its emergency response for communities devastated by the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes west of Caracas.
GEM officials said volunteers and staff are assembling and preparing life-saving humanitarian aid at the Miami-Dade headquarters including food, water, hygiene supplies, medical necessities and other emergency relief items to be shipped to the devastated South American nation starting on Thursday…