Venezuelan volunteers bake giant cake for children displaced by June earthquakes
On 24 June, two strong quakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck the La Guaira region, killing at least 5,069 people, injuring 16,740 and leaving more than 20,000 residents in temporary shelters. The humanitarian group Fundación Color Esperanza, together with about 50 volunteers, prepared an eight‑metre‑long, 1.2‑metre‑wide cake decorated in the colours of the Venezuelan flag in a plaza in the Sucre municipality of Caracas. The cake is intended for the upcoming Children’s Day (19 July) and the organisers plan to hand out roughly 3,000 slices to youngsters living in shelters, saying “it is not a record trophy, it is a piece of hope for the children”.
Other relief actions continue alongside the cake: community drivers transport 3‑4 thousand hot‑meal plates daily to affected neighbourhoods of La Guaira; the US‑based Global Empowerment Mission has pledged a five‑year aid programme delivering food, hygiene kits and reconstruction support; and the Venezuelan Red Cross has partnered with international donors to expand medical and psychosocial assistance. These combined efforts aim to address the immediate humanitarian needs of the millions displaced by the disaster.