Amazon Supports Weekly Humanitarian Relief Flights to Venezuela in First-of-its-Kind Collaboration
Amazon announced it will support a seven-flight humanitarian air delivery operation into Caracas, Venezuela, in response to the devastating twin earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela on June 24, leaving more than 650,000 people in need of aid.
Seven weekly flights will deliver critical earthquake relief supplies to nonprofits
The weekly flights are possible through a collaboration between Amazon, Airlink, the U.S. State Department, and United Nations World Food Programme. The State Department will coordinate access with local authorities, Amazon will donate the aircraft and fuel at no cost to humanitarian organizations, Airlink will determine what goes on each flight based on nonprofit needs, and the World Food Programme will manage logistics in Venezuela.
The humanitarian air bridge is designed to prevent an aid bottleneck—as well as a so-called “second disaster” when unrequested in-kind donations overwhelm communities and divert resources from the most urgent needs.