Here's how to help Turkey earthquake victims: Chicago groups are gathering funds and medical aid for those affected in Turkey and Syria.
Here's how to help Turkey earthquake victims: Chicago groups are gathering funds and medical aid for those affected in Turkey and Syria.The race to help the victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria extends all the way to Chicago.Over 24,000 emergency personnel are now on the ground.
As the death toll continues to rise, local Turkish organizations in Chicago are doing everything they can to help. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake has already claimed the lives of more than 5,000 people in Turkey and Syria.Monday's earthquake brought down thousands of buildings, and, as rescuers were frantically looking for survivors, their efforts were impacted by temperatures below freezing and some 200 aftershocks, which made the search through unstable structures difficult.
The president of Chicago's Turkish American Cultural Alliance is visiting family in Istanbul, and she is scrambling together whatever help she can. "I'm kind of stuck in Istanbul and trying to reach out to people in Chicago, my colleagues and friends, to organize the help that we can," said Vildan Gorener, president of the Turkish American Cultural Alliance. "It is worse than what you can imagine.""A friend's brother-in-law, they are trying to communicate with him. They learned his building was totally destroyed.
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