It was early last week that a devastating earthquake struck the Southeastern Anatolia region, resulting in a large-scale humanitarian crisis. The disaster has claimed thousands of lives and caused significant damage throughout the region. During these difficult times, survivors need food, water, clothing, shelter, and healthcare. Turkey and Syria need urgent assistance at this time. Below is a list of organizations that are working in those areas.
Emergency assistance, medical aid, and shelter are provided by the Turkish Red Crescent, the largest humanitarian organization in Turkey.
Syria Relief is a UK-based humanitarian organization that provides aid and support to people affected by the conflict in Syria, including earthquake survivors. They provide emergency assistance, shelter, and medical aid.
In the aftermath of earthquakes and other disasters, UNICEF provides emergency relief, clean water, and medical aid to children and their families.
In addition to saving lives in emergencies, the World Food Programme provides food assistance to people recovering from conflict, disasters, and climate change, creating pathways to peace, stability, and prosperity. A total of 40,000 ready-to-eat rations will be distributed by the UN World Food Programme to cover the needs of 200,000 people for a week, followed by regular rations.
International Medical Corps: The International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian organization that provides emergency medical assistance to those affected by earthquakes and other disasters. They have a presence in both Turkey and Syria and have responded to previous earthquake emergencies in the region.
Oxfam is a global humanitarian organization that provides clean water, sanitation, and emergency shelter to those affected by earthquakes and other disasters.
As part of their response to the earthquake in Turkey, World Vision is providing emergency relief, shelter, and other support.
IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation: Founded in 1995, IHH's voluntary relief activities have spread across five continents as it creates a bridge of goodwill connecting Turkey to 123 countries. Among the activities IIH is involved in are search and rescue operations and the delivery of food, water, and emergency supplies to Turkey.
In both Turkey and Syria, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) relies on donations to provide adequate healthcare and emergency support for those in need.
It was established in 1919 in the United Kingdom as an international non-governmental organization dedicated to improving the lives of children through education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency assistance in natural disasters, wars, and other conflicts. Both Syria and Turkey will receive blankets and winter clothing from the group in the coming days.
As a relief organization founded in 1958, Project HOPE has been at the forefront of humanitarian relief missions, including natural disasters. To meet the immediate needs of the community, Project HOPE has deployed an emergency response effort and is working with local and international partners.
MSF/Doctors Without Borders provides medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics, and health care exclusion. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières teams are responding to the growing needs. As soon as the earthquake struck, MSF teams began treating patients in northern Syria. MSF emergency teams are assessing the needs of the most affected areas of southern Turkey.
A volunteer organization known as Syria Civil Defence, the White Helmets operates in opposition-controlled Syria as well as Turkey. Around 3,000 of its volunteer rescuers are pulling survivors out of the rubble of the destroyed buildings in northwestern Syria. They have been operating on the ground in Turkey and Syria.
A United Nations agency with a mandate to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless individuals, and to assist them in voluntary repatriation, local integration, or resettlement to a third country, is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In addition to kitchen sets, mattresses, and tents, UNHCR is providing other essentials requested by Turkish authorities.
With the aim of raising $ 5 million to meet relief needs, Global Giving is connecting non-profit organizations with donors. It is a non-profit organization itself. Initially, the money will be used to provide food, water, medicine, fuel, and shelter to those in need.
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