When the devastating earthquake hit Turkey, CNN Hero Teresa Gray and her nonprofit, Mobile Medics International, were on the ground within 72 hours, ready to help.
At home in Anchorage, Alaska, nurse Teresa Gray was playing a board game with her children when she heard about the massive earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on February 6. Although she was more than 5,500 miles away from the disaster, she immediately sprang into action. Gray’s nonprofit, Mobile Medics International, sends small teams of volunteer medics to humanitarian crises around the world. They are typically on the ground to help within the first few days.
They made their way to Hatay Province and once there, began doing mobile clinics on the streets of Samandag. For Gray, the destruction she saw was difficult to comprehend. “Just the total amount of annihilation … this is probably the most devastation that I have ever seen on any mission that we’ve been on,” she said. Since so many structures were unstable, the government had mandated that all families must sleep outside in tents.
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