Budapest → Venezuela · solidarity, organised

Turn a helping hand in Budapest into relief in Venezuela.

Neighbours post small tasks. Volunteers and skilled professionals sign up. Local businesses fund the work. Every donation goes straight to verified earthquake relief.

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Verified scale

Grounded in satellite and seismic data — not guesswork.

Every figure below is drawn from an official source and updated as it’s verified. Trust is the point.

M7.5

Mainshock, 39s after a M7.2 foreshock

USGS · 24 Jun 2026

58,870

Buildings damaged or destroyed (preliminary)

NASA · Sentinel-1 / Copernicus

1,943+

Confirmed deaths — still rising; tens of thousands missing

Official reports · as of 1 Jul

$4.7–8.7B

Estimated damage — roughly 4–8% of GDP

UN estimate

These are preliminary figures from the sources named. The NASA/Copernicus building map is a damage-probability estimate awaiting field verification. We show sources openly so anyone can check our claims.

Built for the long haul

This won't be over in a news cycle.

The earthquake hit a country already enduring one of the world's longest humanitarian crises. Rebuilding homes, schools and clinics — and standing by the families who lost everything — will take years, not weeks. That's why Puente is built as a stable, continuous channel, not a one-off drive: a little help from many people, given again and again, is what carries a recovery through the long years after the headlines fade.

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The model, honestly

Time given here becomes aid there.

No one is paid for a task. Neighbours donate; volunteers give their time; verified partners deliver the aid.

Post or sign up

A resident posts a small task, or a business posts a professional project. Volunteers and skilled professionals sign up with what they can offer.

We match

The platform pairs the need with the closest available volunteer by skill and district. Translators help bridge Hungarian and Spanish where needed.

Donation flows to relief

The neighbour makes a donation for the help received. It’s pooled and sent through a vetted relief partner already working in Venezuela.

Why partners, not our own pipeline: sending money into Venezuela right now is hard and tightly controlled. Routing through an established relief organisation gets help there faster and keeps everything transparent and legal.

Three ways to take part

However you can help, there's a place for you.

Give an hour, lend a profession, or fund a project — all through one verified channel.

01 · give time

Everyday volunteers

Help a neighbour with a small task — moving, cleaning, errands, tutoring, tech help, translation. A few hours makes a difference.

02 · lend a skill

Skilled professionals

Do real professional work — design, web, marketing, data, consulting. You keep the experience and a reference; the business donates.

03 · fund the work

Local businesses

Post a professional project. A professional delivers it, and your business donates the value to the relief partner — cleanly and receipted.

The live app also maps all 23 Budapest districts, so you can see at a glance where help is needed most.

Open the live app → Volunteers · professionals · businesses · resident requests

Where your money can go

Give directly to verified relief — sources in plain sight.

Puente routes funds through vetted partners, but you can also give straight to any of these organisations. Each runs a dedicated Venezuela-earthquake fund and collects safely from abroad — none of it passes through Venezuelan banking.

UNICEF — Venezuela Earthquakes Appeal

UN agency · children

Save the Children

Children

Direct Relief

Health & medicine

World Central Kitchen

Food

Cáritas de Venezuela

Faith-based · Venezuela

ShelterBox

Emergency shelter