A good illustration of life in Venezuela at the moment is given by 
What are the hopes for Venezuela in 2020
Some may say that things can only get better but it seems difficult to imagine what could bring about such a development. The corrupt government doesn't seem to care about its people. The opposition is quiet and the economy is still completely broken. The local currency is almost unusable and everything is sold for dollars. Knowing that it is almost impossible for Venezuelans to get these dollars. We can only wonder how they survive.
How steem and crypto can be helpful
Steem and other cryptocurrencies are a real way for Venezuelans to have money that can purchase stuff. Thanks to the exchange orinoco. Venezuelans can exchange Steem or BTC into a local currency with which they can purchase food and other merchandise. Thanks to this external income, some authors on steem manage to help also the people around them. Like 
For others like 
By helping the people from Venezuela on steem, we can contribute to make their lives and also the lives of the people around them a little bit better.
What is the program 
At christmas 2018, I (
they must be Venezuelans
they must be on steem for several months
they must write quality posts
Unfortunately because of the price of steem, the upvotes lost a bit of their power over time but I believe still that it could make a little difference in their lives.
Here the number of upvotes that have been given throughout the year:
| Author | Number of votes |
|---|---|
 | 437 |
 | 418 |
 | 426 |
| 219 |
 | 209 |
 | 203 |
| 183 |
 | 183 |
 | 149 |
 | 133 |
| 126 |
 | 115 |
 | 124 |
 | 128 |
 | 121 |
 | 121 |
 | 95 |
 | 91 |
 | 79 |
 | 32 |
 | 26 |
 | 24 |
 | 17 |
 | 17 |
 | 15 |
 | 17 |
 | 10 |
 | 7 |
 | 3 |
 | 1 |
 | 1 |
source: https://steemyy.com/outgoing/
There are currently 31 authors from Venezuela in this program. The number of upvotes that they received depends on the time they were taken into the program and also on the amount of posts that they have written.
A big thanks to the delegators of the program
The program has evolved also thanks to the precious aid of some people that have delegated to
| Delegators | Steem Power |
|---|---|
 | 50 |
 | 100 |
| 20 |
| 5 |
| 30 |
| 10 |
 | 25 |
 | 2000 |
 | 125 |
 | 1000 |
| 10 |
 | 40 |
 | 1 |
| 5 |
| 750 |
How powerful was the upvote by during this year?
At the beginning, the program has started with 750 SP but soon some people delegated additional SP to the program. Thanks to the help of the community,
How will the program evolve?
After the hard fork, the curation rewards became more significant and 100% of these rewards were powered up so that the Steem Power of the account itself has grown constantly to reach 1930 Steem Power by the end of 2019. To face the loss in delegations, I delegated 750 SP to
Do you also want to support the people in Venezuela?
If yes then you can simply follow the curation trail of
Happy new year to all of you !
P.S: 20% of the payout of this post goes to the account 