OAA’s strategy of working with local FBOs has proven to be effective in countries like Cuba and Central America. In keeping this strategy, OAA has engaged with Corazones de Esperanza (CDE) a charitable/health foundation in Venezuela to initiate collaboration efforts towards the objective of providing humanitarian aid to Venezuelans. CDE has 14 community kitchens, staffed by volunteers and operating from centrally located churches. CDE has 174 volunteers operating community kitchens and conducting all logistics and distributions activities. OAA fully vetted CDE and concluded that CDE is ready to manage the distribution of humanitarian aid sent from the US. CDE has logistics procedures established to clear significant quantity of humanitarian goods. CDE manages various storage facilities and conduct rapid distribution of aid to thousands of vulnerable persons, registered in a database. Besides the community kitchens, CDE is distributing small amounts of dehydrated packages of rice and other food products and supplies. Local purchase is also implemented, baskets with local procured products include: rice, sugar, cooking oil, and other basic products.