It has been almost one month since the September 8 earthquake struck central Morocco, causing devastating loss of life and vast damage.
Following the earthquake, we reached impacted areas to distribute essential supplies and encountered the heartbreaking new reality of the communities. Our relationships with the local people and their organizations in the High Atlas Mountains are over two decades deep, and this loss is directly felt from among our own.
Your generous donations for relief and rebuilding (emotionally and infrastructural) have made a major impact and have brought hope and new energy to those who have been affected by this tragedy.
Our relief efforts remain ongoing. As of October 6, HAF has procured, transported, and distributed materials to 263 villages in 60 municipalities, directly supplying 6,456 families with 285 tons of seriously needed supplies. We urgently need very more tents that are large and water- and winter-proof.
With partners, we are adapting
IMAGINE workshops to provide psychosocial support and post-disaster empowerment. The months of workshops that are planned aim to focus on recovery strategies for trauma, which can affect stability, identity, and self-agency.
We are also partnering to enhance access and capacity of communities to improve and safely manage their water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities and practices. We are also committed to long-term rebuilding in the coming days and years, especially now water infrastructure systems both for
irrigation and
drinking.
Thank you sincerely for your generous contributions. You are thousands of individuals delivering such needed support alongside thousands of families in Morocco who are in the midst of real difficulty.
We wish you all very well.
Yours faithfully,
The High Atlas Foundation
