Two years on from 2023's devastating earthquakes, here are some stories of how DEC charities have been helping people rebuild their lives.

Two years on, your donations are helping people in Turkey and Syria as they continue to rebuild their lives after the devastating earthquakes in February 2023.

This appeal is now closed for donations. Funds will be spent up until the end of July 2025.

In February 2023, the DEC launched the Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal after devastating earthquakes hit areas of southern Turkey and northwest Syria. The appeal has now raised raised over £150million.

This report looks at how DEC charities have been supporting survivors in the first six months of the response in both Turkey and Syria.

The latest information for media organisations on the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake and DEC-funded response.

Nurse Haneen was scared to come to work after the earthquake but she left her home and family behind to help run the maternity ward at this camp hospital in Syria. Your donations are keeping the hospital running.

The DEC's Director of Programmes and Accountability explains how international aid has changed in recent years.

The threat of winter looms in Syria where people are already dying from conflict and Covid, says aid worker Shahinaz Muamar, from a local partner of a DEC charity.

Aid workers in Syria, Yemen, DR Congo and India paint a grim picture of the pandemic grinding down vulnerable communities. But they also see the difference that humanitarian aid can make, writes Saleh Saeed, Chief Executive of the Disasters Emergency Committee.

Since July 2020, donations to the DEC’s Coronavirus Appeal have helped protect some of Syria’s most vulnerable communities from coronavirus by providing clean water, hygiene kits and supporting healthcare but poor facilities in camps and the growing hunger crisis are still putting lives at risk as the virus continues to circulate.