Inside Turkey’s container city where 80 earthquake survivors share a toilet

Thousands of people lost their homes in the deadly earthquakes which hit Turkey and Syria last year. Today, they are living in shipping containers.

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00:00 Probably around like three to four thousand people are living in this camp and it's always like

00:06 Getting more and more

00:10 I'm Charlie Josh come and I work here as a medical officer and coordinator

00:17 I'm actually coordinator for another camp in over Kent as well when I first came here in November. They were

00:25 173 containers now, it's almost like 600 in each container

00:30 There are like six seven people living and in some containers. I know that there are even like 13 15 people

00:37 so probably around like three to four thousand people are living in this camp and it's always like

00:44 Getting more and more the the new containers are coming new people are coming

00:50 So yeah, the numbers are just changing in this camp. The containers are not like usual containers like in other camps

00:57 They don't have kitchen. They don't have a bathroom. What they have here is like public and

01:02 Community bathrooms and as for the food, it's not being like pre-made and given to them

01:08 But there are like food vouchers cards markets things like that

01:13 and so people can have like some sort of discount in

01:18 Certain places to get the food, but they have to prepare it themselves children also for Turkish children as well

01:24 But also for the Syrian kids as well, they escaped the war and now they came here with the earthquake

01:30 They're in a bad situation for them. Not all of them can like get registered in the schools. They don't have many distractions

01:37 It's also like hard for them emotionally to deal with

01:40 Kind of a racism sometimes and not being able to go to school

01:44 Even if they go to school they get bullied and things so it must be hard for them as well

01:50 The the damage is really like unimaginable and the number of dead people that they give it's so much higher than the actual number

01:59 There are still like so many bodies that they couldn't read so I wouldn't trust the numbers. It's so much more than that

02:06 It's been a year, but nothing has changed

02:08 There are still buildings that are being destroyed people need so much more time to recover

02:13 A year is not enough. I don't think it will be next year. Okay, we will recover from this

02:20 We won't need more help at least five years and I don't think this is something just the government can do

02:26 So like the donations and help from all over the world. It's like really helping

02:31 We are providing the mothers a safe space like in the emergency because they're the most vulnerable

02:36 What they offer is a safe space for them a place for them to be educated or just to relax

02:42 I think it's covering their basic needs here in this camp. It's all Syrian not from different cities

02:49 But from different areas so people who are not from here are now in a different environment

02:54 They lost their homes at first. They were living in a tent now. They're living in a container. That is really small

03:01 so like all of their

03:03 Everything has changed for them

03:06 Yeah

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