Aid campaign launched for earthquake victims in 10 provinces affected by two separate earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş, aid from 7 to 70 helpful people of Çorlu, as well as aid from small and medium-sized businesses and industrial establishments grew like an avalanche, and in 7 days 40 trucks and trucks were sent to the earthquake zones. supplies have been sent.
40 TRAILER AND TRUCK REACHED THE REGION
The Mayor of Çorlu, who stated that two earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.7 and then 7.6 in Kahramanmaraş caused destruction in Gaziantep, Malatya, Diyarbakır, Kilis, Şanlıurfa, Adıyaman, Hatay, Osmaniye and Adana and carried out the aid campaign on the ground from the first moment. Ahmet Sarıkurt stated that the people in Çorlu were mobilized for the earthquake victims and said that at the end of a week, they brought together the aid materials consisting of 34 trucks and 6 trucks with the earthquake victims as a result of the coordination carried out with AFAD.
THERE WAS NO FAULT IN THE DELIVERY OF AID
In his statement, President Sarıkurt said, “Unfortunately, both earthquakes caused the death of many of our citizens. After this disaster, in which thousands of houses were destroyed and many of our citizens were left under the rubble, we started our aid campaign, and thousands of our citizens, from 7 to 70, immediately reacted to our call and started to deliver their aid to our aid coordination center that we created in our Cultural Center.
In addition to our municipality personnel, all materials received with the best efforts of our ÇBSK and ÇBFK trainers, athletes and volunteer citizens were sorted and sorted according to their material types and contents. All of our aid reached our valuable citizens who were damaged by the earthquake and there was no disruption.
MOBILE TOILETS SENT TO THE REGION
While sending all Turkish aid to the earthquake zones immediately, we sent 11 mobile toilets allocated to our municipality by our Tekirdağ Metropolitan Municipality by our teams in line with the demands from the region, to the points where they are needed. In addition, our chambers, institutions and organizations, small and medium-sized enterprises and industrial establishments operating in our region also delivered aid materials to the region with their own means.
“WE DELIVERED THE STOVES THAT OUR BUSINESSES MANUFACTURED”
Some of our businesses mobilized to send the stoves they produced with our municipality and their own means, the containers they procured and produced by some of our businesses, the clothes they sewed by our women using the sewing machines in our Cultural Center, and our children with small hearts and their favorite toys to the earthquake zones. Once again, I would like to express my gratitude to all our citizens who participated in this organization and contributed to the collection and delivery of these aids. We will reduce the pain experienced as we share…”
“WE EMBRACE WITH SOLIDARITY TO BUILD NEW HOME”
Stating that the aid to the earthquake areas continues, Mayor Sarıkurt said, “We have started working towards the needs of our earthquake victims who came to Çorlu from the earthquake-affected areas. We continue to collect unused and labeled clothing products in our Cultural Center. The clothing items to be collected here will be put at the disposal of our earthquake survivors at the Sevgi Bazaar after the controls. During this time, Sevgi Bazaar will only serve our citizens who are affected by the earthquake.
HOUSEHOLD ITEMS WILL BE DELIVERED TO PARK AND GARDENS DIRECTORATE
We collect white goods, beds and plinths, furniture, home textiles, kitchen and bathroom materials, and electrical household appliances at the Park and Gardens Directorate Construction Site in Yuksel Sokak, in Havuzlar Mahallesi. Our valuable citizens who want to help and our earthquake victims who want to benefit from the aid can get information about these aids from our phone number 444 99 59.
“WE WORK WITH PSYCHOLOGISTS”
We started cooperation with our psychologists and psychiatrists working in Çorlu in order to help our earthquake survivors who came to our city to get through the difficult days they went through, and to contact both our children and our citizens correctly. Of course, it is impossible to forget the pain experienced. However, we have to leave these difficult days behind and look to the future together. Unity is stronger, we are united to overcome these difficult days in unity and solidarity.” he said.
PRESIDENT SARIKURT INVESTIGATIONS IN THE EARTHQUAKE REGION
President Sarıkurt, Çorlu District Governor Mustafa Eldivan, ÇTSO President İzzet Volkan, Çorlu Chauffeurs and Automobile Drivers’ Chamber President Nadir Samancı, SS 163 Student and Personnel Transport Cooperative President Çağdaş Şahin and our members of the municipal zoning commission. Çorlu Municipality Search and Rescue Team stated that they visited the AFAD Volunteers and other teams in the field and added that they wished the teams convenience and received information about the work. President Sarıkurt returned to Çorlu after making investigations in Adıyaman, Kahramanmaraş and Malatya.
