🔴 Aid workers fear the population of refugee camps could double in the wake of the disastrous earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, hitting some of the world’s most vulnerable people and putting women and girls in danger
and find their economic activities disrupted by the devastation.
Hani Habbal is a Syria Relief worker based in Turkey who said that he and everyone else is in survival mode, especially those in the most vulnerable predicaments – people who were displaced before the earthquakes.. “They might have managed to secure temporary protection before, but now they don’t have it anymore. People are trying to keep calm, but inside, we are all so afraid.
“For people in northwestern Syria, having been bombed into a corner of the country over the last 10 years, the infrastructure is very weak,” he said. Aid agencies have struggled to find out what had happened and where, he said. He said: “The world is suffering from poly-crisis – multiple crises that are compounding each other and the bandwidth for remembering there’s been a 10-year war in Syria is limited.”
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