Venezuela needs our help. Lets create something together to prove that the Blockchain is here to make the world a better place.

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Lately I have been thinking of social projects, ideas that would be supported by the Steem blockchain. Since I joined Sndbox about a month ago I started feeling the need to do some real life things fueled by Steem. I have been thinking and thinking for days on end and today, out of nowhere a guy from Venezuela talked to me on Discord. He was super grateful for an upvote I gave him over a week ago, and he was telling me how just a couple of SBDs can mean a lot to the people in Venezuela. We all know their economic situation is super delicate and unfair to say the least.

So I started asking him questions about how valuable 1 SBD was for him, what could he buy with it. He proceeded to kindly explain me the hell they are living in at the moment, and how expensive it is to buy food when there is food to be bought. I felt terribly, I felt like a knot in my stomach. He talked about his family (4 siblings) and how they struggle to survive. How everyone is leaving the country heading to Peru, Colombia and other places looking for a better reality, a less unfair one.

Well... he said that people earn in average USD 20 a month in Venezuela nowadays, and that it is not enough, hell no. I have a Steemit friend from Venezuela ( Hive account@jonsnow1983 ) and he told me all this before. So I sent this random guy 5 SBD as a humble donation to help him and his family, even if it just means a week of food for his family (thats what he said). Needless to say, he was SUPER, EXTREMELY thankful, with kind and polite words he thanked me with his heart.

I must admit that sending that small donation made me feel better, like at least I tried... I did something. And the knot in my stomach went away. Then I kept thinking... I have to do some kind of project in which I help people in need from Venezuela to support this community that is going through the hardest time ever. Helping the ones in need feels good, it must release serotonin in my brain because I felt so good after helping this random guy. So I would LOVE to help the people from Venezuela regularly.

I have seen that Nigeria, Philipines and other communities are getting a lot of support here in Steemit and I love to see that. But I have not seen any kind of organization helping the Venezuela community (please let me know if there is already something going on). I see a void there, and I want to fill it.

Now I am thinking of ways to make this real, and create a project that supports users from Venezuela with either upvotes or SBD transfers. I know that this can be tricky, because we don´t know what they are going to do with the money. I have the best intentions and I hope everyone uses the support to buy food and the basic stuff for their families (hygiene, transport, shelter, clothes). But the truth is that we don´t know what people will do with the money.

So now I would like to ask everyone reading this for a little guidance... just a few tips will mean a lot to me. If you could point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it. My (very raw) idea is to create content explaining both the project and the situation in Venezuela with up to date facts and numbers (cost of living and average monthly income). The idea would be to get some Steemit support through upvotes. Then I need to find a way to give the money away, thats tricky I guess. I have two trustable friends from Venezuela ( again Hive account@jonsnow1983 and Hive account@jokossita ) and they could help with this part. We would need to find the people in need of help and send them the SBD, if that makes any sense. Also, I would like to ask everyone that received our help to make a post with pictures showing what they bought with the support, or explaining how they used it. This would be to show the supporters that their upvotes are going to a good cause.

The ideal would be to send the SBD to people that wants to help and commit themselves to help the ones in need with that money, creating content (proof/evidence) with videos and pictures to prove that they actually used those funds to help others.

So far this is just an idea, but one that would make me really happy to make real. Please let me know what you think, if you think this idea is weak and has flaws, please let me know about them, I am very open to criticism. If you think you can help in some way, also let me know how, it would be highly appreciated!.

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