00:00And three weeks after the devastating twin earthquakes, holistic and mental health support has become a vital priority for survivors.
00:08At the Luis Hurtado Transitory Camp in El Junquito, the Ministry of Communities is deploying volunteer brigades training ancestral and
00:16traditional therapeutic medicine to treat both displaced families and exhausted first responders.
00:23We go now with our correspondent Melen de los Santos with her special report.
00:32Hello, studios. How are you? We're coming from the Luis Hurtado Transitory Camp here in El Junquito that is west
00:40of Caracas.
00:41And this is one of the spaces that were organized in order to shelter those most affected by the earthquakes
00:49of June 24th.
00:50In this case, this space is organized by the Ministry of Communes with all its territorial work and it's leading
00:59different activities, different sectors in order to provide the necessary support to those affected.
01:04In this case, we're talking about a therapeutic room that is right beside us.
01:09We're going to try to show some images of what is happening.
01:12This is the ancestral practice of different forms of traditional medicine that is underway right now in order to provide
01:23support, assistance to all of those affected who are staying right now at this camp.
01:30This is a work that has been led and organized by the Ministry of Communes, as we were just saying,
01:37in coordination with different volunteer brigades with which they already had this work ongoing in terms of using the knowledge,
01:46the ancestral knowledge of these therapeutic practices to help to aid the population.
01:52And of course, in this context, all of that work came to fruition and they are using it particularly with
01:59different brigades at this transitory camp, but also they are deployed in the most affected areas.
02:05For example, we've been seeing them work in La Guayra across the state, both helping those affected with their nervous
02:13system, their nervous regulation, their stress levels at a moment just like this one in a perception of integral medicine.
02:22But also helping those who are assisting those affected, so the brigades, the rescuers, the volunteers also benefit from this
02:32practices.
02:33This is a little bit of what is happening in this case in the transitory camp.
02:37Again, trying to show and share the different practices that are underway in the places that are helping those most
02:45affected over three weeks after the twin earthquakes in Venezuela.
02:49I go back to you now.
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