Far from the radars of worldnews a country and its people are struggling to survive. We are speaking of Venezuela. Paradoxically, this country is harboring among the biggest oil fields in the world. Nonetheless the economy is broken and people have great difficulties to find food to feed their children.
This video from france.24 shows the extent of the misery in Venezuela:
A little help
Christmas is a time to share and to help. Instead of donating money to charities that send us letters to our mailbox, I decided to use the power of steem to help some people in Venezuela. I have been inspired by 
Using Steem to help some people from Venezuela
I wanted to help these people in a sustainable way and I believe that I have found a solution thanks to steem. I invested what I had planed to donate to charities into Steem and created this account 
The purpose of it this account is to upvote steemit posts of people from Venezuela. On steemvoter, I created automatic upvotes for these people:
Whenever they post something on steemit, they will get an automatic 100% upvote from
Trying to make it sustainable
Thanks to how steemit works, the Steem Power of this account won't decrease and it will be able to provide upvotes to these people for a long time. In order to ensure that these people profit even when they do not write any posts. I will sell the upvotes of
Will some cents help these people?
Of course the value of an upvote of this account is at the moment rather limited. I don't believe that these people will be able to eat thanks to these upvotes. I won't be able to make a difference just by myself but I will give you ideas in further articles how you can contribute to make this project grow.
The aims - Increase to upvote value and increase the number of people to help
The first aim I have is to increase the Steem Power of this account so that the upvotes will be more consequent. Later on I would like to extend the help to more people. I hope that by helping a few people with some additional steem, this will have a positive impact on the people around them, their families, but also the people they make business with. Cryptocurrencies seem at the moment the only way to store value in this country.
Who is behind this project
I understand that with all the scams out there, nobody is willing to just give money away. I am 
How can I know whether this project is legit?
When you check https://steemd.com/@help.venezuela you will always be able to see the progress of this account. The Steem Power and the upvotes that are given.
How you can contribute
Steemit offers many possibilities to help:
- follow
- resteem this post
- upvote this post
- give a comment
- set an automatic upvote to
- delegate some steem power to
I am working on more ways how you can support this project and help people in Venezuela. I will write about them in future posts.
Thanks for the donations
- www.ref-hunters.ch (620 steem)