Help for Earthquake Victims

Local and international aid groups are at work in Turkey and Syria's rubble

First Hope Association is a local NGO that’s long partnered with U.S. groups World Relief and others to care for Syrian refugees in Turkey. I met director Demokan Kileci in 2018 while his team was building a school in Gaziantep. Within hours of the initial Feb. 6 quake, his teams were on the road and have so far set up mobile kitchens, mobile bathroom trailers, and delivered two trucks of supplies. They are also providing equipment for search and rescue in some of the same refugee communities I visited in Gaziantep. “All of our staff and volunteers are working in difficult conditions. They sleep in their vehicles or on the ground in sleeping bags,” Kileci reports.

Kurtuluş Churches in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, have branches in many quake-affected cities. They are sending food trucks and other supplies.

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