Boxing Day 2024 marks 20 years since a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck the coast of northern Sumatra, triggering a massive tsunami that devastated millions of lives. The impact of the response, and the changes to how we deliver aid, are still being felt today.

Your donations are helping people in Turkey and Syria recover from last year’s devastating earthquakes.

This appeal is now closed for donations. Funds will be spent up until the end of July 2025.

Zeynep had broken her back when a wall collapsed on her during the earthquake that hit Turkey in February last year yet she was still the backbone of her family, holding it together for everyone. This International Women’s Day I want to share the stories of three women who are putting others first despite their own challenges, writes Shagufta Yaqub.

In February 2023, the DEC launched the Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal after devastating earthquakes hit areas of southern Turkey and northwest Syria. The appeal has now raised raised over £150million.

This report looks at how DEC charities have been supporting survivors in the first six months of the response in both Turkey and Syria.

The latest information for media organisations on the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake and DEC-funded response.

Nurse Haneen was scared to come to work after the earthquake but she left her home and family behind to help run the maternity ward at this camp hospital in Syria. Your donations are keeping the hospital running.

14 DEC charities and their local partners are responding to the disaster, working with locally-led relief efforts to provide medical treatment, emergency cash payments, shelter, and ensuring people have food and clean water.

The DEC's Director of Programmes and Accountability explains how international aid has changed in recent years.

A study into the DEC-funded response to the 2018 earthquakes and tsunami in Sulawesi, Indonesia to help inform future responses.