Access to clean water is likely to be a challenge, bringing the risk of waterborne diseases. There was already an outbreak of cholera in northwest Syria before the earthquake. The first earthquake struck without warning in the early hours as people slept on Monday. More ...
USAID's Samantha Power on earthquake donations: What's needed most is cash "The temptation is to give blankets and teddy bears and strollers and goods," Power said. "But actually what the organizations on the ground most need is money." ...
“Our teams are mobilized across the country after a major earthquake affecting over 10 provinces and the South and Southeast regions of Türkiye causing casualties and destruction,” the organization said on Twitter. Our pioneering team and resources, who were directed to the region at th...
As of Thursday, MSF had $5.1 million come in from online donations along with a 10 million euros ($10.7 million) donation from the IKEA Foundation. Click here to donate. RELATED:Turkey arrests building contractors for shoddy construction after deadly earthquake Syrian American Medical Society The ...
Dr. Raed Ahmed, the director general of the Syrian National Seismology Center, was quoted by SANA news agency as saying that the earthquake was the strongest since recording began in 1995. Dumeira said all hospitals were mobilized to treat the victims, and additional ambulances and rescue teams...
magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6, and tens of thousands are injured. In the days following the earthquakes, undergraduates from the Harvard College Turkish Student Association and Harvard Society of Arab Students raisedmore than $30,000 in donationsfor earthquake relief ...
5.The Syrian American Medical Society SAMS offers emergency medical services. Numerous hospitals in the area were already overcrowded, and the earthquakes also caused damage to some of them.Donations can be made online with PayPalor by texting EarthquakeSyria to 71777. ...
The Syrian American Medical Society, a charity based in the U.S., said it was also helping earthquake victims on the ground inside war-torn Syria. "Hospitals are overwhelmed with patients filling the hallways," the organizationsaid in an appeal for donations. "There is an immediate need for...
“I am deeply saddened by the loss of life and devastation caused by the earthquake in Turkiye and Syria. I have directed my team to continue to closely monitor the situation in coordination with Turkiye and provide any and all needed assistance,” he tweeted this morning. The earthquakes have...
A strong earthquake 1 (occur) in south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border on February 6th, 2 (follow) by numerous aftershocks. As 3 result, more than 37, 000 people got 4 (injure) and thousands of buildings, hospitals, and schools crumbled in it, which worsen the 5 (poor) of the...