Aid from expatriates in France arrived in the earthquake zone

2 trucks of materials collected in the aid campaign launched by expatriates living in France for the victims of the earthquake in Turkey, arrived in Kahramanmaraş.

The Chateaubriant Association (ACTC), founded by expatriates living in Chateaubriant, in the Pays de la Loire region of France, launched a relief campaign after the magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes that struck Kahramanmaraş on 6 February and affected 11 provinces.

Within the framework of the campaign, supported by French citizens, 25 tons of aid were collected in a few days, including food and sanitary supplies, nappies, baby bottles, beds, clothes, shoes, heaters, beds and tents. Upon learning of the campaign, a Frenchman joined the campaign with 500 wheelchairs, walkers and crutches.

The materials collected in the room allocated by the Chateaubriant Municipality were loaded into two separate trucks and brought first to Yalova by boat from Marseille and then to Kahramanmaraş by the association’s president, Nihat Kılıç, and the association’s managers, Cuma Avcı, Hüseyin Ceran, Mehmet Özdemir, and Nihat. Okten.

The aid materials were delivered to the AFAD warehouse in the Türkoğlu Organized Industrial Zone.

The president of the association, Kılıç, also pointed out that they donated 65,000 euros that they raised as an association to AFAD. (AA)