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One month after the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24th, recovery efforts continue in La Guaira, the state most heavily impacted by the twin earthquakes. Our correspondent Belén de los Santos brings us the details from the area. teleSUR

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00:00One month after the twin earthquakes that hit Venezuela on June 24, several temporary camps
00:05have been set up throughout La Guaira to enter the needs of affected families.
00:11A correspondent, Belen de los Santos, is at one of those in Caravalleda, La Guaira State,
00:16and has more details.
00:21Hello studios, exactly as you were saying coming to you from La Guaira, particularly
00:25from the Caravalleda golf course, in this case one of the places that we have visited
00:31throughout this month because it's one of the zones that quickly became a point of assistance
00:38and of course was transformed throughout this month to accommodate the different needs of
00:42every stage. For example, becoming one of the main points of health assistance with a hospital
00:48set up here and commanded by different medical volunteers and also everything,
00:55in coordination with the Bolivarian National Armed Forces. You also see that this is working
00:59as a transitory camp, a place where those affected their family members are also staying here. We are
01:07very near one of the recovery sites. This is Caravalleda, Los Cocos, one of the places that was most
01:15affected by this double earthquake. In this case you see all the people who are having lunch right now,
01:21in different shifts because that is also one of the things that are happening right now. This places,
01:29this transitory camps that have become central to this recovery efforts to providing the assistance,
01:36both in terms of material assistance, food, a place to sleep, a place to have their medical health care
01:43covered, but also a place of support, emotional, spiritual. We're just talking actually to a group of
01:49pastors that are also working organically here in the camp. The psychologists, we have seen this
01:56throughout the different transitory camps, an important part of the recovery process that involves
02:03so many areas and so many different skills in this month of recovery following the twin
02:10earthquakes of June 24th. This is a little bit of what is happening in La Guayra. Every recovery stage
02:15is happening here at the same time, of course, depending on the level of damage that each area
02:22had. So we are coming to you from Caravallera. We will continue moving. The idea is, as always,
02:28as we have been doing throughout this month, bringing you a little bit of how this is being lived on
02:34the
02:35ground. Telesur English has been there from the first moment and we're here when one month has passed.
02:43I go back to you now.
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