https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/nile98/update_more_than_11_tons_of_food_were_given_to/

I was contributing to this, but unfortunately I think it's a scam.

OP has refused to post ANY pictures of the operation or any other additional info.

Their twitter site looks sketchy and also it does not provide any info.

On their website: https://mealvenezuela.org/#

There's also no info and if you click here it just goes back to the top of the page.

Also, if you go to 'About Us', there's no info whatsoever, just some very generic statements.

There's also this low effort video with a few testimonials from some of the people receiving food that doesn't prove anything about the real scale of the operation:

https://old.reddit.com/user/CaracasGirl/comments/n8oh9d/video_we_asked_the_beneficiaries_of_this_project/

If OP provides any useful info to legitimize their operation I will erase this post. But for now, it looks like a scam.

Also, there's this post debunking some of the food claims:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/n7tqen/you_guys_made_this_possible_this_week_we/gxh157m/

Not this again, omg why are all you falling for this.

As I can see in the picture, the bags that the people got have 1kilo ^{2.2 pounds} bags of pasta, rice and cornmeal and Black beans, nothing else

The prices of this items, per kilo, in venezuela, are around 1$, you can check someprices of those exact products seen on the picture here:

• Rice: Brand in the pictures is "Mary", the rice in venezuela is sold by tiers, the one in the pictures is 2nd tier ^{worse than 1st tier} a.k.a "tradicional" one, with the orange package, the price of the tier 1 of the same brand is 1.16$ per kilo, and has a red package, you can check price here: https://www.promarketlatino.com/tienda/ver/2004 If you need to see the website for the rice you can confirm that the item in the donation is 2nd tier one that is cheaper than 1.16, you can find that one for around 0.8$ PER KILo. https://www.alimentosmary.com/productos/

• better brand cornmeal, the one in the pictures is a terrible cheaper brand, this brand is way better and cost 0,98 https://www.promarketlatino.com/tienda/ver/245 the one that was in the donations is so bad that no online retailer sells it, the name for it is "Harina santa lucia", it cost 0.65$ the only online retailer that I found was in a ebay like site: https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ve/MLV-578267601-oferta-harina-de-trigo-sta-lucia-por-bultos-20-kg-_JM#position=1&search_layout=stack&type=item&tracking_id=4a920ebb-cc6a-4695-a894-dc0499a69b0c thats 13$ per a 20kilos case (20 1 kilo bags)

• The pasta in the pictures is a totally uknown brand, and my guess is that is also a really cheap brand of pasta, you can check pasta results here: https://www.promarketlatino.com/search?query=pasta and you will see nothing like it, it's probally same case of cornmeal, is a bad brand that is not sold online, but the average price of a kilo of good pasta is 1.5$, I will call that this girl used a 1.25$ kilo pasta, since thats the price of the bad one.

• Black beans: There is a lot of local brand of black beans, they are around 1.5$ per kilo in premium ones, 1$ per kilo on bad ones, lets average 1.25$

so a resume:

• rice: 0.8$
• pasta: 1.25
• blackbeans: 1.25
• cornmeal: 0.65

that puts the kilo of food with an average of 0.98$ and it sounds correct, as I remember correctly, venezuelans joke about 1 kilo of food = 1 dollar. And keep in mind that I am using online prices (usually some % more expensive than buying in normal stores)

This person is bragging that she gave away 1170 kilos of food, at 1 dollar each kilo, thats 1170 dollars.

She received over 6k USD in donations, only in their public chains one, we can't even see how many private donations she got in other sides.

PLEASE STOP GIVING MONEY TO THIS DIY VENEZUELAN CHARITIES, THEY ARE MOSTLY A SCAM

ABUSING PEOPLE THAT RANDOMLY TAKES PICTURES OF OTHERS FOR GIVING THEM SOME BAG OF FOOD THAT IN TOTAL COST 1K USD WHILE GETTING MORE THAN 6K, ITS BAD

IF YOU WANNA REALLY HELP SOME REAL CHARITY IN VENEZUELA GO HERE AND PICK A REAL, VERIFIED CHARITY https://www.globalgiving.org/search/?size=25&nextPage=1&sortField=sortorder&selectedCountries=00venezu&loadAllResults=true

I KNOW IS NOT CRYPTO, BUT A LOT OF THEM HAVE INSTAGRAM PAGES/WEBSITES, ETC, WHERE YOU CAN FIND THAT THEY HAVE OTHER WAYS OF DONATION, THEY MIGHT EVEN HAVE WALLETS FOR CRYPTO DONATIONS IN THEIR SOCIAL NETWORKS, JUST PICK A NAME FROM HERE, ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS ACTUALLY CHECK THEY ARE LEGIT AND APPROVED IN GLOBALGIVING, AND GET IN TOUCH WITH THEM IN HOW TO GIVE THEM CRYPTO, MOST OF THEM ARE FAMILIAR WITH CRYPTO ALREADY