MALACAÑANG on Friday announced that the Philippine government will be sending aid to quake-stricken Syria.
According to the Presidential Communications Office (PCO), President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has directed the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to facilitate the sending of $200,000 in financial aid aside from relief goods and materials to show the country's support to the 'united global effort to assist the victims of the February 6 earthquake in Türkiye and Syria.'
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
Already have an active account? Log in here to continue
reading.
Or Subscribe
to the Premium
Subscription plan to access this subscriber-exclusive article.