How to help people affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

 

How to help people affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

The earthquake and its aftershocks left massive destruction across Turkey and northern and central Syria, and beyond. More than 3,000 people have been killed, and more than 11,000 more injured.

It is the strongest earthquake to hit Turkey is more than 80 years. Thousands of emergency responders have been searching for people amid the rubble of collapsed buildings, and medical teams have been tending to the injured. The full scale of the damage is still being determined.

The powerful earthquake and its dozens of aftershocks, including a second quake almost as strong as the initial one, come during frigid winter temperatures and an existing humanitarian crisis in Syria, compounded by more than a decade of destructive civil war.

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