At the end of February, AP was reporting that "the devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria have killed at least 50,000 people with many more injured, tens of thousands still missing and hundreds of thousands homeless, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Tuesday."
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-syria-earthquakeunited-nations-44c2b736108ccb37130cf64e9e5fa7ca
The news really seems to have completely ignored this. Frankly I was surprised to see this article.
https://www.antiochian.org/dashboard?name=2023%20relief%20fund
The Archdiocese of North America wired an initial $250,000 to the Patriarchate for use by the Dept. of Ecumenical Relations and Development (GOPA-DERD). The department’s team on the ground in Syria is spending the money on food, clothing, temporary shelter, hygiene kits, diapers, medicine and medical supplies, which they rapidly distributed to earthquake survivors, some of whom are staying in Antiochian churches and halls.
Next, the Archdiocese of North America established an online donation portal at Antiochian.org/earthquake. Please give generously.
TOTAL DONATIONS AS OF FEB. 24 (ONLINE AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS): MORE THAN $758,000
[predicted on February 7 that the number of people under the rubble was approximately 184,000.]
Yikes