OUR WORK

Rehabilitating schools in Zulia state, which includes building toilets and washrooms and upgrading water storage tanks and their distribution network, benefiting more than 1,200 children and adolescents to date. 

Providing community-based health interventions, focussed on promoting good practices, offering basic medical care, and spotting people who needed urgent attention, then connecting those individuals with services available through local partners. 

However, there are still important gaps—especially in follow-up care, referral systems, and access to mental health support. Improving these areas will be a major priority moving forward. 

Carrying out community-based nutrition screening, counselling for caregivers on infant and young child feeding, including breastfeeding, and referring children with acute malnutrition to available services. 

Promoting  the protection and well-being of girls, boys, and adolescents through socio-emotional learning activities, child-friendly spaces, mindfulness practices in schools and communities, individual psychosocial support through case management, and the integration of mental health and psychosocial support into programs such as Building Brains, Safe Schools, and Safe Families, strengthening safe and protective environments for their development. 

Helping children access safe and quality education by providing educational kits, training teachers to improve reading, writing, maths and socio-emotional skills, and coordinating with educators and community partners to help students catch up on their learning and support children’s return to school. 

Save the Children is implementing a training program designed to strengthen the capacities of local organizations in Venezuela regarding the implementation of humanitarian projects and organizational management. 

The programme addresses both technical and cross-cutting themes, such as gender, safeguarding, and advocacy. 

We seek and promote the active participation of children and adolescents, in coordination mechanisms and in the National Advisory Group of Children and Adolescents (GANNAN), as a means of strengthening and supporting child and youth participation in decision-making processes and advocacy spaces.

Through an intersectoral and inclusive action plan, we address the root causes of inequalities based on gender and other forms of diversity, which affect children, adolescents, and women in differentiated ways.