EMERGENCY ALERT: Morocco Earthquake Kills and Injures Thousands

Dear Friend,

I wouldn't normally email you on a Sunday, but late Friday night a deadly 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Morocco killed and injured thousands of people — and left many more in urgent need of medical and mental health care.

We need to act quickly to save lives, so our emergency response teams are already mobilizing and assessing the most urgent needs of survivors. Our focus in these early days is on assisting search and rescue operations through our local partners who have deployed emergency health workers, a surgical rescue unit and ambulances.

The earthquake is the hardest to hit Morocco in 120 years and was felt as far as Portugal and Algeria. The full scale of the damage is still unclear as many of the hardest-hit communities were in the rural Atlas Mountains, where rescuers continue to work to gain access. Historic walls and buildings collapsed in ancient cities made from stone and masonry not fit to withstand quakes. Thousands of people spent the night on the street, fearful of returning inside in case of aftershocks.

Your donation today can make a tangible, lifesaving impact to help people in Morocco survive this disaster and ensure communities in long-term crises like Ukraine and Haiti can recover and rebuild.

Please rest assured we are doing everything we can to help and will keep you updated as our work evolves. Thank you for taking time out of your weekend to help Morocco and people in crisis.

Rabih Torbay
President & CEO Project HOPE