While rescue teams clear rubble in Venezuela after the June 24 earthquakes, Julia Alessandra Mariano grabbed her computer and built something no one had organized yet: a place where families could search for one another. 🧡
Her platform, venezuelatebusca.com, works as a collaborative online registry. Anyone can go in, report someone missing, or say they found someone alive. Only basic information is needed: physical description, name, and a reference contact. That simple.
That necessary. The demand was so immediate that the site crashed several times, but Mariano kept it running. “It has gone down several times, but it remains operational”, she confirmed. 💪
Amid the pain and uncertainty, this digital entrepreneur showed that you do not have to be a government or an international organization to make a difference. Sometimes all it takes is an idea, an internet connection, and the desire to do something. If you know someone looking for a family member in Venezuela, share this link: venezuelatebusca.com 🔗
