PRC receives P2.5M donation from senators for quake victims in Turkey

By Red Mendoza

Mar 09, 2023 10:57 am

THE Philippine Red Cross has received a P2.5 million donation from the Senate for victims of the earthquake in Turkiye.

The donation comes after an appeal by Turkish Ambassador to the Philippines Niyazi Eyren Akyol.

TOPSHOT - A man walks among the rubble of collapsed buildings in Hatay on March 6, 2023, one month after a massive earthquake struck southeastern Turkey. - A massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked huge swathes of Turkey and parts of Syria on February 6, 2023, killing more than 50,000 people in both countries, with some 46 000 on the Turkish side. One month on, teams of workers are still toiling to clear the rubble that now dominates quake-hit cities, as the country faces faces the daunting task of rebuilding flattened cities, with tens of thousands buried and many survivors barely subsisting in tents or containers. Turkish officials said 214,000 buildings collapsed following the quake, many of them in Hatay and Kahramanmaras. Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP

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