Turkey and Syria
“Much more help is needed”: spokeswoman for an aid organization reports from the earthquake area
Warehouses with relief supplies were also destroyed in the earthquake area in Syria and Turkey, reports Ninja Taprogge, spokeswoman for an aid organization. As a result, the survivors lack water and food.
Watch the video: Ninja Taprogge, spokeswoman for the aid organization CARE, reports on the operation in the earthquake area.
The aid organization has a large office in Turkey with local employees and delivers cross-border aid to Syria. “Of course there was also the destruction of warehouses with relief supplies, we are looking at which relief supplies we can still use and distribute to the population,” says Care usually works in hospitals to support expectant mothers, “there is also destruction there, a The hospital had to be evacuated.”
Earthquake survivors in Syria and Turkey need help
Taprogge is in contact with a colleague in Gaziantep who is staying in an emergency shelter. “He says they have no electricity, there are hundreds of people he is with and they need basic supplies: water, hygiene items, food.” ATMs don’t work, so people without cash couldn’t buy food. “We are dependent on the relief supplies that are already available in the region, but much more help is needed and it has to come from outside.” “Unfortunately, we also have victims among our employees.”
Vivian Bahlmann talks to Ninja Taprogge, spokeswoman for the aid organization CARE.