We need to learn how to manage solidarity...

Because this emergency is not solved in few days. This will take months or even years, this is why we have to manage the desire to help, so that it is sustainable and really helps children and their families to get back on their feet, to recover after a very, very difficult experience.

People who have lost their homes and relatives require comprehensive support. This implies understanding that if we all help during the first week, but then we disconnect we will not achieve the goal. In the same way, it's about understanding that help is not necessarily what I have left over or is comfortable, it means thinking about what people really need and how I use my talents, skills or resources to connect and be able to help.

I can't help but tell you, too, about the importance of taking care of the one who takes care. It may seem to us that those who help can do anything, and it's not like that. Even the most experienced rescuers or frontline personnel need to rest, and take care of themselves in order to put their skills and abilities at the service of others in order to continue advancing in the rescue of the victims of this tragedy.

We need to support each other, accompany each other and go through this turbulent journey together.

I am with a crushed heart, in a single feeling with all Venezuelans outside and inside the country. It's hard to look away and continue, the heart turns looking for comfort in the best news, but... It's hard, not being attentive to reality.

There is a lot of discontent in the country, even among the people of the Venezuelan state themselves. Any event could become a popular response, stimulated by revenge, it is like a pressure cooker, to which no one lowers the flame.

And now what? This tragedy is long-term, because the people who are on the street, inhabitants of about 280 buildings of the housing mission alone, in La Guaira are at least 90 buildings only in that government urbanism, where more than 10 collapsed floors per building and the rest uninhabitable in La Guaira and the whole country. Plus all the stuff that fell into (private housing) buildings.

There are many people planning for the long term, the possible country solutions, the question is are the given relations between civil society and the state to achieve it? This is my question in the face of so much uncertainty. And the pressure cooker is still on fire.

That's why it's so hard to separate yourself from the news! And stop talking about this tragedy. It gives the feeling that instead of everything calming down, on the contrary it is growing... And we really have to act like guts and relax, sleep, calm down …
I send a hug to all those who from their place try to add.

Janitze.🌷❣️