AI-assisted humanitarian support in an active emergency — built on the tools they already ran.
Contigo Venezuela — emergency response for Venezuelan families
In an active emergency, RET needed to give affected families instant, reliable, multilingual access to protection guidance — emotional support, safe-migration routes, child safeguarding — without expanding headcount or putting beneficiary data at risk.
- Designed and delivered an AI-assisted help desk chatbot on Zendesk, reachable free via QR and web
- Structured responses around verified, official sources — emotional support, child and adolescent protection, risk and route guidance, referral to orientation
- Embedded responsible-AI and data-protection guardrails from the start
- A live, publicly accessible protection chatbot (theret.org/venezuela) serving families in real time
- Zendesk-recognized protection AI project
- A reusable model for AI-assisted protection RET can deploy across country offices