With so many donations, it will take several days to send them all by plane, so organizers are now calling for people to give money instead.
VIDEO: Local efforts to help victims of earthquake in Turkey and SyriaAt the Bazara family home in Marysville, no one is eating or sleeping much.“Our homes, buildings, it’s really hard that it got destroyed,” said Ahmad Bazara.Their closest relatives survived the earthquake, but friends are missing and it’s hard to get updates.
With people trapped beneath collapsed houses, he says lifting the wartime sanctions on Syria would help the response.Across the border in Turkey, the crisis is serious, too.
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