#Morocco earthquake

[riricitaa]

Please DONATE if you can! Share so it reaches more people!

[frosty-tian]

Charity Commissions Redone:

Minor changes to the charity commissions, I’ll now do half-body with sketchy line-art but full shading and colouring for $15.

Additional characters would be $10, and willing to add on some additional details for free.

I shall provide links for the charities to donate to (please tell me whether you would like to donate for Moroccan Earthquake relief or Palestine aid).

I’ll have four slots open, two for Morocco, and two for Palestine.

Payment expected first, preferable for the commissioner to have donated and shown me the proof of payment due to deductions from conversion fees (but if it’s me doing the donation, I shall show the commissioner proof of payment).

If anyone is interested or have further inquiries, please feel free to send me a DM.

Art Examples and Guidelines.:

Reblogs/sharing would be very much appreciated, thank you!

[tasthedelulu]

Please, consider donating and helping those that were affected by the earthquake. If you are unable to donate please share and pray for our people.

[z34l0t]

Here’s a list of some of the groups currently collecting donations for those affected by the earthquake. The resources on this list have been given a 90 percent rating or above on Charity Navigator, a charity assessment organization that evaluates non-profits and other charitable institutions.

GlobalGiving has created a Morocco Earthquake Relief Fund and is accepting donations. 

UNICEF has stated that it’s ready to help Moroccans in need and is currently accepting donations.

The Red Cross has launched an emergency appeal and is accepting donations for any with immediate or severe needs.

Doctors Without Borders, a well known non-profit, is reportedly sending medical teams to Morocco.

[unmondefou]

Though we shared the horror of the disaster on Friday night, its impact was more severe on our sisters, brothers and their children in the villages. There are those who lost their entire family members, and there are those who lost some of them, and the saddest thing is that there are villages from which no one survived. The souls of my country are wounded and bleeding in pain, and your prayers, my friends, will be the healing balm for our wounds. In the end, I can only say, To God we belong and to Him we shall return.

إن لله وإن إليه راجعون

--- h.harouche

[mchiti]

Hi.

There has been sadly a lot of cases of human trafficking in the aftermath of the earthquake in Morocco, as you can see here. Orphan children and women lives are in danger, cases of kidnapping have been reported, along with illegal adoptions, forced marriages and labour exploitation.

For moroccans, but even non-moroccans: if you come across anything like this, both online and out there, please report it.

There is an helpline active: 080000 47 47.

And you can also report it to unicefmaroc

[thepastisalreadywritten]

By Sam Metz

September 11, 2023

An earthquake has sown destruction and devastation in Morocco, where death and injury counts continue to rise as rescue crews dig out people both alive and dead in villages that were reduced to rubble.

Law enforcement and aid workers — both Moroccan and international — have arrived in the region south of the city of Marrakech that was hardest hit by the magnitude-6.8 tremor on Friday night and several aftershocks.

Residents await food, water and electricity, and giant boulders now block steep mountain roads.

Here’s what you need to know:

WHAT ARE THE AREAS MOST AFFECTED?

The epicenter was high in the Atlas Mountains about 70 kilometers (44 miles) south of Marrakech in Al Haouz province.

The region is largely rural, made up of red-rock mountains, picturesque gorges and glistening streams and lakes.

For residents like Hamid Idsalah, a 72-year-old mountain guide from the Ouargane Valley, it is unclear what the future holds.

Idsalah relies on Moroccan and foreign tourists who visit the region due to its proximity to both Marrakech and Toubkal, North Africa’s tallest peak and a destination for hikers and climbers.

“I can’t reconstruct my home. I don’t know what I’ll do. Still, I’m alive so I’ll wait,” he said as rescue teams traversed the unpaved road through the valley for the first time this weekend.

The earthquake shook most of Morocco and caused injury and death in other provinces, including Marrakech, Taroudant and Chichaoua.

WHO WAS AFFECTED?

Of the 2,122 deaths reported as of Sunday evening, 1,351 were in Al Haouz, a region with a population of around 570,000, according to Morocco’s 2014 census.

People speak a combination of Arabic and Tachelhit, Morroco’s most common Indigenous language.

Villages of clay and mud brick built into mountainsides have been destroyed.

Though tourism contributes to the economy, the province is largely agrarian.

And like much of North Africa, before the earthquake, Al Haouz was reckoning with record drought that dried rivers and lakes, imperiling the largely agricultural economy and way of life.

Outside a destroyed mosque in the town of Amizmiz, Abdelkadir Smana said the disaster would compound existing struggles in the area, which had reckoned with the coronavirus pandemic in addition to the drought.

“Before and now, it’s the same,” said the 85-year-old. “There wasn’t work or much at all.”

WHO IS PROVIDING AID?

Morocco has deployed ambulances, rescue crews and soldiers to the region to help assist with emergency response efforts.

Aid groups said the government has not made a broad appeal for help and accepted only limited foreign assistance.

The Interior Ministry said it was accepting search and rescue-focused international aid from Spain, Qatar, Britain and the United Arab Emirates, bypassing offers from French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Joe Biden.

“We stand ready to provide any necessary assistance for the Moroccan people,” Biden said Sunday on a trip to Vietnam.

WHY IS MARRAKECH HISTORIC?

The earthquake cracked and crumbled parts of the walls that surround Marrakech’s old city, a UNESCO World Heritage site built in the 12th century.

Videos showed dust emanating from parts of the Koutoubia Mosque, one of the city’s best known historic sites.

The city is Morocco’s most widely visited destination, known for its palaces, spice markets, tanneries and Jemaa El Fna, its noisy square full of food vendors and musicians.

HOW DOES THIS COMPARE TO OTHER QUAKES?

Friday’s earthquake was Morocco’s strongest in over a century but, though such powerful tremors are rare, it isn’t the country’s deadliest.

Just over 60 years ago, the country was rocked by a magnitude-5.8 quake that killed over 12,000 people on its western coast, where the city of Agadir, southwest of Marrakech, crumbled.

That quake prompted changes in construction rules in Morocco, but many buildings, especially rural homes, are not built to withstand such tremors.

There had not been any earthquakes stronger than magnitude 6.0 within 310 miles (500 kilometers) of Friday’s tremor in at least a century, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Northern Morocco experiences earthquakes more often, including tremors of magnitude 6.4 in 2004 and magnitude 6.3 in 2016.

Elsewhere this year, a magnitude 7.8 temblor that shook Syria and Turkey killed more than 21,600 people.

The most devastating earthquakes in recent history have been above magnitude 7.0, including a 2015 tremor in Nepal that killed over 8,800 people and a 2008 quake that killed 87,500 in China.

WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS?

Emergency response efforts are likely to continue as teams traverse mountain roads to reach villages hit hardest by the earthquake.

Many communities lack food, water, electricity, and shelter.

But once aid crews and soldiers leave, the challenges facing hundreds of thousands who call the area home will likely remain.

Members of the Moroccan Parliament are scheduled to convene Monday to create a government fund for earthquake response at the request of King Mohammed VI.

[o-kurwa]

[deluluduck227]

Are you ok ? , How are you and your family in Morocco? I hope you are well.

thank you for asking dear❤️ welll the experience was traumatizing cause i nearly died not even knowing it was an earthquake but thank god i was saved last minute but what really affected me was seeing how we mean nothing to the people in charge of the country. Children died and of they're still alive they're orphans now. A small village turned into a graveyard since the habitants are all dead, not even one survived! A mother lost her 4 children and her husband. All we can do is thank allah and go back to his way cause this experience really shows how tiny and fragile we are and how our life is short. once again thank you for asking dear

[rapha-reads]

I check the news about Morocco every morning and share links for donations or how to help, and every time I end up crying again.

Good thing my 100% natural Moroccan khôl is so waterproof that even Libya's flood couldn't erase it.

Gotta joke or else I'd spend entire days just crying 🙃

If you can donate in any way to help Libya and Morocco, please, do.

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[frosty-tian]

Posting it here too.:

Screw it, not sure how successful it would be, but opening two slots where I do half-bodies, fully rendered, for $30. One will go to a Palestine charity, the other will go to a Morocco earthquake relief (proof of payment will be provided to the commissioner).

Payment expected before I start working on your commission.

Added character will be $15 each, willing to do a few additional details for free, and here's a guideline on what I will/won't draw.

If interested or have any inqueries, please DM.

[tasthedelulu]

Please read <3:

[ikram1909]

Ale might be my new favourite player ❤️

[mchiti]

Do not trust any donation link you see, especially if it’s foreign as money don’t go to Morocco directly.

Banque Alimentaire have been doing outstanding work in Morocco and they are a good way to provide actual help if you can.

[sbrown82]

What is going on in North Africa?