Amazon donates cash, technology, supplies to aid Venezuela earthquake
Amazon is providing a multifaceted response to assist response to the recent earthquakes in Venezuela.
In response to two powerful back-to-back earthquakes which struck in the northern part of Venezuela on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, Amazon is working with more than 12 nonprofits on the ground and using its global logistics, technology and aviation capabilities to help provide aid.
Following are updates on Amazon's earthquake relief efforts in Venezuela:
Technology systems restoring connectivity
Amazon's first distribution of free rapid response technology systems arrived in Venezuela on Tuesday, June 30, and hospitals and shelters in northern Venezuela are using them to restore Wi-Fi connectivity. The company said that it is ready to ship hundreds of additional systems with connectivity and power solutions as needed.
Amazon Air flight with emergency supplies
An Amazon Air flight will depart from Miami to Caracas, Venezuela on Friday, July 3 to donate and deliver approximately 500,000 supplies including sleeping bags, tarps, generators, water filters, diapers, cleaning equipment, and hygiene kits to nonprofits on the ground.
Early response and employee volunteers
Amazon has made cash donations to six nonprofits providing search and rescue, medical care, and other emergency services. Amazon employees around the world have volunteered, including packing emergency supplies with the nonprofit Global Empowerment Mission in Miami.
“I'm grateful that Amazon can show up for communities facing unimaginable loss in Venezuela,” said Bettina Stix, director of Amazon Global Community Impact, in a corporate blog post. “Every supply we fly in, every hospital we help reconnect to Wi-Fi, every weekly flight we coordinate on non-commercial routes—it's all about reaching the people who need help and letting them know they're not alone and it’s the right thing to do.”
Other notable recent Amazon disaster relief initiatives include supporting emergency relief efforts for December 2025 flooding in the Pacific Northwest; as well as using its Wildfire Relief Hub, located two hours east of Los Angeles and stocked with more than 200,000 essential items — as well as its logistics infrastructure and technology, to deliver needed items to first responders, non-profit partners and humanitarian relief agencies on the ground in California during the January 2025 wildfires that struck the Los Angeles area.
Disaster Relief Hubs – a brief primer
The main purpose of what are now 15 global Disaster Relief Hubs (Amazon opened its most recent facility in Tepozotlán, Mexico in February 2025) is to enable the e-tail giant to use its logistics network to quickly send critical products to nonprofits and community partners in the wake of natural disasters.
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The process of sending emergency supplies to disaster zones can take multiple days. To quicken that timeframe, Amazon analyzed its data across nine years of disaster support and formed a pre-positioning strategy. The strategy is tailored to the most common relief supplies needed by the company’s community partners, including tarps, tents, water containers and filters, medical equipment, clothing items, and kitchen supplies.
