Digital Cash Cards Help Turkey Earthquake Victims with Immediate Needs
Mercy-USA’s donors brought comfort and relief with this emergency cash relief to hundreds of families reeling from the loss of their homes and worse.
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In the months after the major earthquake that struck Antakya, Turkey, Mercy-USA mobilized to provide digital cash cards for families who had been made homeless by the quake.
We distributed $250 to each family which allowed them to purchase exactly what their own family needed during those devastating times. Having lost everything but the clothes they were wearing when the quake struck, the cash cards were a vital lifeline to buying needed supplies like clothing, or diapers for the babies, or household items to prepare food safely or a hundred other things specific to each household.
A mother told us she was so relieved to be able to purchase her children’s school supplies for class so that they could return to some normalcy. Mercy-USA’s donors brought comfort and relief with this emergency cash relief to hundreds of families reeling from the loss of their homes and worse.