World Jewish Relief (WJR) has launched a Turkey Earthquake Appeal. You can donate to it here.

More than 12 million lives have been devastated after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, a second 7.5 magnitude earthquake, and powerful aftershocks hit southeast Turkey and neighbouring Syria on 6th February.

Thousands have been killed and many thousand more injured as homes and buildings completely collapsed. With search and rescue missions underway, these numbers will continue to rise.

WJR is responding, with its partner on the ground, helping to provide emergency shelter, blankets, heaters, clothes, food packages and first aid kits to the worst affected in Turkey and the surrounding areas.

Liberal Judaism CEO Rabbi Charley Baginsky said: “Liberal Judaism are always so proud to support World Jewish Relief. We know with confidence that they will ensure that support reaches the places that need it.

“Right now the people of Turkey need more than our prayers, they need practical and financial response from our community, a community that understands that our particularistic Judaism calls on us to see the universal and to help repair the world in whatever ways we can.”

World Jewish Relief is the British Jewish community’s international humanitarian agency – empowering people in crisis and poverty to live with dignity, self-reliance and hope.