One month after a powerful quake devastated parts of Turkiye and Syria, hundreds of thousands of people still need adequate shelter and sanitation, and an appeal for US$1 billion to assist survivors is only 10% funded, hampering efforts to tackle the humanitarian crisis, a United Nations official said Monday.
The Feb. 6 earthquake and strong aftershocks have killed close to 47,000 people in Turkiye, destroyed or damaged around 214,000 buildings and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless -- making it the worst disaster in Turkiye's modern history. The UN estimates that the earthquake killed around 6,000 people in Syria, mainly in the rebel-held northwest.
"We have some provinces where up to 25% of the population -- we're talking sometimes half a million people -- have relocated. So the challenge we have is how do we provide food, shelter, water for these communities?" he said. "The reality is that if we do not move beyond the roughly 10% that we have, the UN and its partners will not be able to meet the humanitarian needs," he said.
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