Young people in Bristol have banded together and raised a total of £6,427.50 for earthquake survivors in Syria and Turkey. The combined death toll of the two earthquakes which hit the south of Turkey and northern Syria on February 6 has now risen to over 50,000.
Bristol Youth Empowerment (BYE), a group of volunteers in their late teens and early 20s, raised the money by holding an auction and selling cakes and sweet treats. They are donating the money to Human Concern who are working on the ground in Turkey and Syria.
BYE, who had previously raised £70,000 for flood victims in Pakistan, describe themselves as a ‘handful of youths’ who collectively decided to come together and make a difference in the local and wider community. The group felt it particularly important to raise money for a charity which has also been working in Syria, a country which due to a decade long civil war and sanctions from the UK, US and EU, aid workers have not been able to enter the country so easily.
