Hope is fading to find survivors after Monday’s devastating earthquake. But viral videos of volunteers rescuing people from rubble in Syria have lifted spirits.
The world knows of these rescues because of Karam Kellieh, a resident and photojournalist who lives in the opposition-controlled territory. The area is home to some 4 million people displaced by the decade-long Syrian civil war. Even before the earthquake, the area was devastated by bombs and poverty. Aid was often hampered by politics and the Syrian government.
NPR was able to reach Kellieh on Wednesday by phone. He spoke from Jinderes, a part of Syria's Aleppo province that's under opposition control. He said countless buildings there have collapsed. People are in the streets in the freezing cold, waiting for aid to arrive. Aftershocks have made buildings still standing unlivable.
"Humanitarian aid and international aid haven't appeared 72 hours after the catastrophic earthquake," he said, describing the little help that is trickling into the region as a haphazard grassroots effort by individual groups.
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