(21 Aug 2025)
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Falcón, Venezuela – 28 June 2025
1. Soup kitchen volunteers preparing arepas with meat, plantain and white cheese
2. Volunteers serving arepa to children
3. Children eating
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Falcón, Venezuela – 25 June 2025
4. Priest Gilberto García at soup kitchen
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gilberto García, priest:
"It is more difficult every day for people to have access to food of a certain quality. 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 – 27 June 2025
6. Alnilys Chirino arriving to her house
7. Various of Chirino and her children eating
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alnilys Chirino, Falcón resident:
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“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 when I realize I’ve spent all I had. Money flies away rapidly.”
9. Various of Chirino taking bread out of bag and giving it to her youngest son
10. Chirino organizing things at her near empty fridge
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Falcón, Venezuela – 28 June 2025
11. Woman paying in local currency
12. Woman looking at products at store
13. Trays of meat with their price tags behind counter
14. Goat on road
15. Various of Yamelis Ruiz holding a World Food Programme bag and checking her digital wallet where she receives
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yamelis Ruiz, Falcón resident:
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"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.”
17. Ruiz checking cellphone
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Falcón, Venezuela – 27 June 2025
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alnilys Chirino, Falcón resident:
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“They ask me, ‘What are we going to eat tomorrow? How are you going to buy things tomorrow?’ Yes, they ask me.”
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Falcón, Venezuela – 28 June 2025
19. Various of Alnilys Chirino eating arepa at soup kitchen
20. Various children rushing against counter asking for more arepas as volunteers give half of it to each at soup kitchen
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.
That’s what they ate that morning while black beans slowly cooked in her kitchen to serve with rice for lunch.
Increasingly, she has had to look for help at least once a week to feed herself and her children.
“It’s not enough, it’s really not enough,” said Chirino, who doesn’t have a formal job, but sells clothes to bring in money.
When her husband left them, their situation became dire.
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