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Falcón, Venezuela – 28 June 2025
1. Various of soup kitchen volunteers preparing the traditional maize flatbread arepas with meat, plantain and white cheese
2. Volunteers serving arepa to children
3. Children eating
4. Various children rushing against counter asking for more arepas as volunteers give half of it to each
5. Children eating
6. Volunteer cleaning soup kitchen
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Falcón, Venezuela – 25 June 2025
7. Woman sweeping
8. Priest Gilberto García at soup kitchen
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gilberto García, priest:
“It is more difficult every day for people to have access to food of a certain quality, because people eat, but they mainly eat carbohydrates. Some rice to give some flavor to the arepa, and with that they survive.”
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Falcón, Venezuela – 28 June 2025
9. Various of Alnilys Chirino eating arepa at soup kitchen
10. Chirino sharing arepa with her eldest son
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Falcón, Venezuela – 27 June 2025
11. Alnilys Chirino arriving home with bread and orange-flavored water bought at her neighbor’s grocery shop
12. Various of Chirino taking bread out of bag and giving it to her youngest son
13. Chirino organizing things at her near empty fridge
14. Various of Chirino eating bread
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alnilys Chirino, Falcón resident:
“It’s not enough, it’s really not enough. So, what I do is go to the store and buy a couple of things and you see you spent all of it. Money flies away rapidly.”
16. Chirino serving black beans and rice for lunch
17. Chirino eating with her children
18. Various of Chirino serving rice and mortadella for dinner
19. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alnilys Chirino, Falcón resident:
“They ask me, ‘What are we going eat tomorrow? How are you going to do it to buy things tomorrow? What are we going to eat?’ Yes, they ask me.”
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Falcón, Venezuela – 28 June 2025
20. Goat at road
21. Various of Yamelis Ruiz holding a World Food Programme bag and checking her digital wallet where she receives government bonuses on her phone
22. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yamelis Ruiz, Falcón resident:
"(My daughter) who used to receive this has Hydrocephalus. So, you also have to spend on medicine. Some days it was food or medicines. Either I buy one thing or the other.”
23. Woman exiting grocery shop
24. Woman looking at products in grocery shop
25. Various brands of corn flour
26. Trays of meat with their price tags behind counter
27. Woman paying in local currency
28. Store owner grabbing dollar bill
STORYLINE:
Triple-digit inflation, low wages, shrinking foreign aid, and deep cuts to food subsidies are causing millions of Venezuelans to struggle to put food on the table.
Children are already feeling the effects of the latest chapter of Venezuela’s protracted crisis.
Many go to bed early to skip dinner, faint from hunger at school, or fight over leftovers at the few soup kitchens still operating.
Priest Gilberto García runs one of those kitchens out of the community’s church with help of donations and their own income.
“It is more difficult every day for people to have access to food of a certain quality, because people eat, but they mainly eat carbohydrates,” he said.
Alnilys Chirino goes with her children every Saturday to Father Castro’s church soup kitchen.
Her oldest son volunteers and helps in the Church.
On a recent day, the mother and son chat as they share an arepa in the soup kitchen.
The day before, all she could get for breakfast was a bag of bread and orange-flavored water.
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