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al jazeera dot coms, updated throughout the day. do stay tuned. is the stream next? here announces era on counting the cost? will opec plus is decision to talk? oil production make inflation was the u. k. agreed to join the asia pacific trade block as quick as pullman fields and breakfast boss. why has africa received only 11 percent with millions required in climate funding? talk to the cost on al jazeera with her there. i'm josh rushing. are welcome to the stream. it's been 2 months since devastating earthquakes and syrian turkey killed more than 50000 people and this voice, millions on the front lines of the disaster were humana. terry workers themselves where they're both living through the trauma and the loss and destruction while also working to provide life saving support. so today we ask, how are the humana terry workers recovering as they continue to respond?

but 1st, let's hear from zara albert rossi, head of research with the syrian legal development program here quick that hits this was so intense that no nation could have dealt with on its own. despite based international communities, provided no support for those in northwest. so the united nations and the states left the burden completely on 8 workers and 8 volunteers living there. individuals who themselves, who are often victims. some had recently made homeless st. i'd lost loved ones. what this is meant is that many have not had til today. the privilege of the time or the space to be able to process or to more on what happened to them, what happened to their families, and what happened to the communities that they live in. joining us to discuss of aro rodriguez you in resident coordinator in ankara in marsh sima. good now carol manolo director of support to life a humanitarian organization in turkey. and with us from amsterdam, sherwin cousin,

an officer with doctors without borders. one more seed at the table, of course is you, if you're watching us on you too, right now, see the box over there. you get a comment to me and i can get into our guest so that you know, we can do this thing together right now. let me give you an update on this earthquake. it happened early in the morning on february 6th with devastating results. 50000 dead. ah millions displaced. i want to begin with the morrow of our own. can you give us an update here to months on what, where are we with the humanitarian response to this and what's needed most well into care. their responses actually proceeded rather, well, it did not face the challenge. is that nor than theory of faces bad, but i can speak to about 2 kids. specifically. one of the major challenges really is shelter. we have people staying and tense temporary,

tam somewhat rather well established camps, set up by the government. but the reality is that living intense is really only a short term solution. so, to the extent possible, we want to make sure that families, people, that, of course, have gone through an extraordinarily difficult situation, can actually return to the expense into the extent possible toward normal way of life. and of course, living intent. that camps means that issues related to water, food, sometimes some more complicated. and very importantly, men and women and children are affected in different ways. so we need to make sure that we can provide support door to the different citizens and refugees from syrian to care based on that needs to actually feel that for a young child that may have gone through the shock of a lifetime. for sure. we need to make sure, for example, that we have psycho social support that we can get them engage in play and in school to be able to provide you know,

at some degree of normal see for them after this terrible tragedy. and that's on the turkey side of the line where they're quick also struck in syria, sherwin i want to ask you for an update on what the humanitarian response in syria is like right now. yeah, thank you. 2 months after the earthquake actually is facing a double emergency on a double crisis, it's a crisis of a natural disaster mixed with and manmade disaster. more than 6000 deaths were recorded in city or around 12000 injuries were reported in all parts of the many houses. many accommodation are destroyed, infrastructure is damaged and bit missed basic necessities are missing, such as electricity a few for whether for ambulances or facilities or to generate electricity. unfortunately, 555 medical care facilities were either partially or fully damaged,

which also added another layer of challenges to a response, medically to what's going right now. there are thousands of homeless people more than 180000 people out of this place. they are added to 2800000 internally displaced people in this area in west and north for cynthia. and they are in basic need for shelter, clean drinking water. well, water facilities and heating equipment, especially the weather is still quite difficult. in much only, there were a lot of floor stuff destroyed many tents in more than 22. that comes in with people comes and there is a huge need to escalate and improve the humanitarian response in this area. yeah, and so i, i want to bring in a piece of video. this is from i'm a mood. she is a rescuer with white helmets. this is what it was like day of precise illness of almost 4 dynamics. now, back at around $63730.00. we were called in after the collapse of the buildings and

the destruction. so we headed to the closest location, which was millis. when we got there, i saw the catastrophe, and i wasn't expecting to see the amount of destruction that i did. when i saw the scenes of the martyrs, the children, the women, all of them under the rebel, i forgot about my family at home. my sister, who i lost touch with and who was in turkey. all i could think about was how can i get the children out if there is someone alive, how can i reach them and get them to the nearest hospital keith with my son and he will. so so my, here's where i want to really focus in on the point today show in his checking with the humanitarian workers who both suffered the earthquake, but are also on the front lines of helping other people. can you talk to me about what it was like for you when it happened and how did you deal with both the personal trauma but also being that 1st line of help for people

a. hi josh. it has been very, very difficult for us because as a humanitarian organization, ourselves where they are to respond to the needs. but then being affected ourselves has been particularly very, very difficult. this was an area of the earthquake affected area is we had many offices and teams on the ground because as a humanitarian organization, we were responding to the refugee in flux from syria in 2012. so we actually had quite a big program and we had huge teams in the border areas. the, you know, the area that was affected by the earthquake. so we have been affected ourselves. many of our staff were quite a huge organization. we also have a lot of community volunteers, we have volunteer committees in the area. so of a large number of staff with themselves affected. and it took us a while to recover from that to get back on our feet so that we can actually start

planning our emergency response and our humanitarian programming. and that has been a quite, quite a challenge also because of the scale of the disaster. we've never seen a disaster before of, of, of this scale. so we're struggling, but now we have started our operations and we're actually covering a quite a variety of needs in the region. so looking to our youtube audience, we have a number of comments here where sky metal says, i've been so worried about the children, gavin leper says 50000, and that's crazy. how many people were hurt to the point where the life is changed forever. the kids i cannot imagine, it must be akin to war. so sure, when i want to go with you, because not only is that can towards overlapping war in northern syria there, right? how are people dealing with both? what happens when this kind of thing happens? where war is already happening. yeah, really a good question. the problem is that city is going into through

a manmade emergency. since 12 years we are already in the 13 years of the city and conflict. already many people, we were several times repeatedly displaced to several locations. a lot of them were leaving already in clusters of camps without access to clean drinking water without a decent shelter without an access to the basic services in this area. and what's happening with this f quick, it's added another layer of challenges on difficulties to these people. what made it even harder is the, i would say, the disaster of the humanitarian situation in office syria. the fact that there are 4400000 people in this area, depending on one human italian access that is connected to turkey. and that he's not even a decent good referral system to refer people to any other place beside suki that way when the emergency and that great american cities altered by their quick hits the area. we had no defense mechanism. so the people also the,

the white helmets were the only one, were able to get people out of the debris and the levels for us. it was really a very difficult to see those people who are going through 12 years of misery and entering a new stage and you face of misery. let's not forget 12 years of of, of conflict culverts valera. busy outbreak and now this emergency it, it resulted from death quick. it's really what we need the really to improve on escalate the humanitarian response. in this part of syria, we have like dantes levels of how like, how many levels are there when you talk about it's a new level of misery. what, what else could happen there? look, i want to bring in another piece of video here. this is who somehow in the hasa researcher positions for human rights for 12 years, asking providers and see, do you have a don't systematic targeting as part of your wider strategy,

organize health care, yet more defeated by the equipment to saving their patients and saving lives. we see medical professionals who refuse to leave the country working time just to support their communities and providing care care as to what help be at medical leaks. cope with to security threats that resources and unstable it onto an access during my time to you. this is what i currently hear. photos was still on the front line, our service provision, the devastating earthquakes that had celia and to get added it. you burden on health care providers, any on student workers who became on both sides of the equation as to the levels as well as service providers. i have talked to many colleagues who are still dedicated to support their communities, and this is what gives them to energy to came to work that they are doing so far away, that's hearing some of the challenges on the syrian side of the border. what are some of the biggest challenges on the turkey side of the border and addressing us? yeah, well, let me just comment on syria because sir,

like so many humanitarian colleagues. we've seen these things happening in many parts of the world. and on what shocks me sitting on this side on 3rd, they took kias side. is that just across a line in that map, you see such a different and considerably more difficult situation. but in 2 years, the level of displacement has been tremendous. we've got millions of people that have actually left you earthquake sought for safe areas to be with their relatives or simply out of fear. while you have other people that have had to just set up 10 . so even just add some kind of accommodation with plastic sheeting to be able to stay near their houses to see if they can rescue something or near their land or their animals that live if they live in the rural areas. so why not? they challenges that we see as we move, you know, through this humanitarian face into some form of recovery, which is of course, very possible at doable into here at abbe difficult situation. the syria of course,

is that we need to restore the livelihood. we need to be able to get people back to again, some degree of normalcy after this terrible tragedy restart the economy because they elect provinces that were affected. into kear hath 15000000 people as population. and that includes $1700000.00 refugees. so their needs are huge and we need to be able to restart the economy and of course continued to provide the social service. i said more of a normalized way. but as we hope of course, and this, this will happen gradually. dumping their summer and i went, wow, well, i didn't get onto that and there has been extreme ad trauma and loss in the region as a there's been a need for psycho for psychological 1st aid and also for psychosocial support. and this is an area that we're working in, i already, prior to the earthquake, and we had a big teams of psychologist social workers, psychosocial support,

and staff. and we've been able to mobilize them. and this has, you know, been great in terms of really a covering that needs for 1st, for psychological well being. also, you know, crisis situations create inequalities. and we have a very strong protection focus. so we're looking at children who the specific needs women who have specific needs are going back to routines is as great as a great way of healing. and so looking at how we can provide some of the, some of the services, you know, that people are, that people are accustomed to, in addition to the economic recovery, which is really helping, is going to help as we, as we see more and more of an economic recovery. people then feel that they are less in need of aid and going back to, to routines. so i wanted to add that as well. can i want also to add one think

actually is it a yeah, what i wanted to add actually also is related to the mental health for the humanity in what could of themselves, in the data work. it also possible of these populations they are going through the same challenges of this population are going through that, why it's very important for us to be taken also into consideration in this psycho social support that they, they are able to take care of themself to stay alive and also to take care of others and to support them or them also, it's not easy to be vulnerable and support other valuables to be honest, i sure when this is exactly what i want to talk about, we have a couple of video comments from our community this is from a bras hodge honda and who is a humanitarian worker lube. and from so soon as mid who's a communications manager for the syria relief and development, listen to this and then similar, we're going to come back to you after this for an answer. even before there's

a quick, the skills that i'm going to turn in needs here was far beyond the capacity of any single n t o, but agencies are creating new this region. i have always complimented each other. some of us deliver or rehabilitation projects, and those are the of the clean water and shelter agencies or know, partnering for clinical social support. but 1000000 people need the sport and only 24. a psychologist, us are available funding for this need the most people to, to the forefront of the quick response. the impact there is great honor aid workers has really exposed the gaps in the humanitarian sector, ensuring that they're protected in the face of a disaster. this has to include their physical and psychological well being with the amount of trauma that they have endured. we have to make sure that they're

getting the support that they need. if they can't take care of themselves, they can't take care of any one else. some are, are the people in your organization, the people providing the support? are they getting the psychological, psychosocial help that they need? and if so, what, what is and if not, what are, what do they need to get? yes, this has been a challenging area for, for us. josh, because, you know, as a humanitarian organization, we have the reflex to respond to it to, to cover needs to assist people in any way we can. and we have actually been slow in acknowledging the fact that we need to take care of ourselves 1st before we can, we can help others. i mean, it's 60 days into the earthquake and we've been working day and day out. but now we're really starting to feel the heaviness of what we're trying to do,

but at the same time, the need to cut to, to, you know, take care of ourselves. so this is definitely an area as, as, as you know, management team that we're looking at doing, doing better edge. how about you so much? are you getting the psychological help that you need? i'm chang, i'm trying, josh, and this is something i'm i'm, they're trying to be my myself and also as a late teens, i'm or is it, you're not an area we need to do better at i think you're putting on a brave face and i'm worried that you're not of are over against like so. knows for sure. yeah, yeah. jump in there. yeah, no, i wanted to jump in because one of the challenges that often has with psychosocial support is that there's some stigma associated with it. mo, you seek a psychologist, you need help you and not a stroke as you should be, and is very important for everybody that do recognize that all of us at one point in our career facing difficult situations. and particularly of course,

had national colleagues that laws, relatives that have relatives that have been disabled. that's a result of the earthquake. you know, you, you need to be able to talk to a professional that can help you manage these things. and then you, then you can recover better, the country needs to recover. but of course you yourself need to recover a 100 percent and i'll say right now i'm not in the earthquake zone and i'm in therapy. i'm seeing some one. and so if i'm doing it here in washington, i guarantee you, you know, so and who surviving this there. but our what i wanted it, we have some comments from our on youtube audience and someone here, robbie both is asking about, what are the challenges, risks face long term for the entire workers in turkey, syria. what would this mean in terms of, do you run out of supplies? you run out of tense? how do you look at this in more of a years perspective than a days perspective yet? well, one of the challenges ult communitarian operations have is set in a world that is so complicated, where you have crisis in yemen in parts of africa that war in ukraine. money is

finite. and we all competing for these resources which we believe these people they serve because this is basic humanity, a basic characteristic of being human beings. but luckily at the case of took care we are being able to meet most of the requirements may be not as fast as we would like to, of course, but things are being supplied efficiently. my concern is what's happening in syria, decide human being in this planet, that as, as all the colleagues mention, not enough is reaching there, not enough institutions. and they order posts for matt took it to syria to provide the ada, very limited. so you need a lot more. now we have another comment from you to this as m m. ron dar, who says how can people and other parts of the world health, earthquake victims? how can other countries contribute? well, listen them on it right now. oh, don't go now,

but go after the show i'm going to tweet al jazeera has got you covered. we have a whole article with links on, on how you can help. and i'm literally tweeting my computer now, so you can find that there. but semi, or let's go back to sherwin actually, cuz i know it's harder to get the aide to syria. what can people around the world do to help their you know, i think this is, this moment is very good. we need to spread the what we need the world to be aware that there is a still a crisis and emergency in syria. before this f quick. there was a fatigue of city in years, not he. we couldn't read normally city hours on all the braking use in every channel, morales that why i would say arms actors, other political actors would also trying to, to do something in this crisis. but recently, especially since corporate a lot was stopped. unfortunately, now with earthquake seniors under the lights again and what they want see here,

one of the most important thing that everybody should talk about that everybody should communicate about is that the very vulnerable access issue, the access is only through one, he method and corridor. there are 2 extra been opened in 13 or february, but only for 3 months. that means we have one month left, one month, only one month left. i hope there is a lot of talk going on to extend this humanitarian corridors and not only not for syria. also not the city in all around city, the city and population, whether under the good schuchman station in northeast or northwest or in the government controlled area, they need the humanitarian support and this access issues making it a very difficult but also this area is going through even further, because of the lack of safety, lack of security, that people lost their livelihood. a lot of people have nothing but more than 12 years. we need to support them to be able to take care of themselves to be able to respond to such an emergency that forbidden if it's happen soon. ok,

so i've got just about 2 minutes left here. what can people do to help the humanitarian providers? not just the people on the ground, but the actual humanitarian providers. is there something that our audience can do? and josh, actually i am. i want to emphasize the fact that there is quite a bit going on outside the formal humanitarian system. you know, turkey has a strong civil society and civic groups, local organizations, a little businesses or private private sector in general. and they have all a mobilize their resources to, to support and, and we, as an organization, we're looking at a community lead action community lead efforts to really recover from what people have lived through. they know they best know, you know what they need and what they need to to, to recover. so any kind of assistance for community lead action is, is the greatest support. jo, this is kind of

a specific question and we're down to the final minute the show. but of our i wanted ask you because what we've heard reports of armed groups that have actually been affecting the ability to respond with aid. i imagine that must be more in syria in turkey, but have you heard about that in turkey as well? we heard a one situation in the southernmost province that was affect it at effect that very badly hot ty at one point. but dad, in fact they, at the police and the law and order services it took kia, had been very effective, a containing that i'm sure that certain detentions, but other than that incident than what i, i personally have not heard of anything more in syria, of course, it may be different. well, i want to take this moment to think all of you for being on our show today because i know that you're busy, and i know you're doing important work of our osama and sherwin. so thank you for taking time to share this information with our audience on the stream. and i hope that our audience can actually maybe do something to help you there for everyone.

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