About to be fulfilled a year after the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria There are still a hundred missing. Relatives accuse the Turkish government of making little effort to identify the recovered bodies, and the death toll a year later raises the death toll to more than 60,000, making it the deadliest after the 1970 incident in Peru. 67,000 victims.

Added to this is the fact that there are still thousands of homeless people and the official camps run by the Government are completely overflowing. More than 700,000 people are crowded together who lost absolutely everything in the earthquake.

“We have given a lot of basic necessities and milk for babies. The mothers do not have milk because the shock of the situation has left them without milk and the babies are drinking what they get,” which is causing “serious problems,” according to and as the vice president of the NGO Olvidados, Olga San Martín, has commented; that she assures that they have also “shod 1,350 children.” Also “there are many people who are either in a forest or in the mountains“he commented.

Twelve months after the devastating earthquakes, Barely 15% of the homes promised by the Turkish government have been built. The needs are pressing especially for children and women.

For her part, the president of the Spanish Emergency Committee, Sara Barbeira, assures that “recovering education immediately is very important or recover, for example, women having a monthly income.” “To do this, they are reactivating and financing all the marketing of the textile sector and also agriculture through women’s cooperatives,” she explains.

This is what the work of the NGOs of the Spanish Emergency Committee focus on, which also continue to work there. A humanitarian emergency yet to be resolved and that we must not forget.