Latin America Chapter

Puerto Barrios, Guatemala
This branch supports Central and South American countries.

Latin America Live Feed

GEM LATAM team on the ground in #Estrela #RioGrandeDoSul #Brasil 🇧🇷 bringing supplies to thousands of #Families affected by the floods.
The Taquari River rose and overflowed, flooding many kilometers of area, rising in some places up to 35 meters high.
These are the largest #floods in history. Millions of people require help.

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GEM LATAM distributions to the communities affected by the floods in Brazil.

#floods #brazil #gemmissions

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GEM LATAM team assembling the aid in Brazil to continue deliveries to the families affected by floods.

#gemmissions #gem #gemlatam #support #brazil #floods

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GEM LATAM distributions in Communities Das Vilas, Das Flores, and Novo Hamburgo in Brazil.

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Head of GEM LATAM @luisvelasquezq01 on @cnn speaking about GEM’s efforts to support the families affected by the floods in Brazil.

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GEM Latin America Missions

Floods

2025

Argentina Floods

Argentina

On March 7th, Bahía Blanca and Cerri, Argentina were hit with over a year’s worth of rain in just eight hours. The heavy water quickly damaged roads, bridges, cars, housing, infrastructure, and the region. There have been 16 confirmed deaths, and still over 100 people missing.

Fires

2025

Volcano Fuego

Guatemala

In San Juan Alotenango, Guatemala the Fuego Volcano was slowly erupting, spewing ash and lahar across neighbourhoods. Hundreds of residents have been evacuated from surrounding regions, as well as multiple school and road closures, with tens of thousands more evacuations expected.

Floods

2024

Valencia Floods

Spain

GEM Europe, in partnership with Goya Spain, is responding to the deadly flooding in Valencia, Spain. The floods have claimed the lives of dozens and caused severe destruction around the region. Already recorded as Spain’s worst disaster in the last 3 decades.

Floods

2024

Brazil Floods

Brazil

The GEM LATAM team responded in Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil to the recent extreme flooding in April & May 2024 . Over 1 million homes were without access to water, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated and placed in shelters, and countless more have been affected.

Fires

2024

Chile Wildfires

Chile

In February 2024, Chile experienced their worst disaster in over a decade. Severe forest fires devastated the Valparaiso region, having burnt nearly 64,000 acres and forcing thousands to evacuate.

Hurricanes

2023

Hurricane Otis

Mexico

Acapulco, Mexico was devastated by a Category 5 hurricane on October 25th. The storms caused flooding, extreme structural damage, road destruction, affecting over 2 million people.

Hurricanes

2022

Hurricane Lisa

Caribbean

Hurricane Lisa intensified into the Caribbean waters, and made landfall in Belize in northern Guatemala. GEM responded immediately by deploying a team & sending containers.

Hurricanes

2020

Hurricane Eta & Iota

Central America

On October 31, 2020, the category 4 hurricane ETA hit Central America devastating the region – reporting 57 dead & hundreds missing. On November 16, another Cat 5 hurricane, Iota ravaged the region.

Fires

2019

Amazon Wildfires

Brazil

In 2019, the Amazon wildfires season saw a surge in fires with more than 906,000 affected hectares occurring in the Amazon rainforest and Amazon biome within Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru.

Migration

2019

Venezuela Refugee Crisis

Venezuela

In 2019, the Venezuelan migration and refugee crisis, the largest refugee crisis in the Americas, is the emigration of 4.6million Venezuelans who fled the country because of the Bolivarian Revolution.

Volcanoes

2018

Guatemala Volcano

Guatemala

On June 3, 2018, Volcán de Fuego eruption was a series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows. The eruption included lahars and volcanic ash clouds with no evacuation time causing 200 deaths.