Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) – Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) has called for further donations for the victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. The destruction would be of gigantic proportions and the need would continue to be enormous. “Therefore my heartfelt request and my appeal not to let up in your support. Please continue to help, as each of us, as everyone can,” said Wüst on Thursday after an exchange with rescue workers and helpers from NRW in Düsseldorf. “Every euro counts and helps people in this difficult situation and gives hope,” explained Wüst.
The NRW Prime Minister thanked the rescue workers and helpers for their work in the affected areas. “North Rhine-Westphalia is proud of you,” said Wüst. The participants had brought photos of their operations and several search dogs to the meeting. They described their impressions while on site.
The NRW State Chancellery pointed out that aid workers from action medeor, the Malteser, ISAR, the Federal Association of Rescue Dogs, the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund and the Technical Relief Agency had already traveled to the affected areas in the first few days after the severe earthquake. Volunteers from a Rewe initiative and the Rheinland Klinikum Neuss also set out.
Markus Bremers from action medeor made it clear that after the rescue operations it is now about the people who survived this tragedy and who would have to make do with the essentials. It is about providing those affected with blankets, water, food and medicine, among other things. One of the Syrian partners recently told him that the biggest fear is not the next earthquake or aftershock, but that the world will forget again.