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EXPERIENCE
HUMANS
EXPERIENCE
Humans of Morocco
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MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE HITS XX
September 8, 2023
6:11 PM, EDT, Atlas Mountains, Morocco
UNTOLD
"There Was No Way to Save Them.
I'm Burning from the Inside.
It Feels Like Hell."
- Mohammed from Tnirte, Morocco. A villager from deep in the High Atlas mountains who lost his wife and daughter in the earthquake.
Arriving deep in the High Atlas Mountains, it was clear that help had not arrived. Villagers dug through collapsed buildings. Some had shovels and farming hoes. Others used their bare hands. Houses that were built on the sides of hills had slid down on one another, taking out everyone and everything in their path. Massive boulders blocked the roads and supply routes to these remote areas.
What do you say to someone who has lost everything? Whose family is buried under the rubble? Telling their stories never feels like enough. They need manpower and heavy machinery. Not sympathy and words. Though at the moment, all we have is a camera and questions to ask. A way to tell the rest of the world about what they are experiencing. Humans of Morocco.
Humans of Morocco
homes were destroyed. Leaving thousands displaced.
55,000
When the group took a break from digging amid their search for a young girl, they insisted we sit for tea. Tea and bread. All that they had. We declined. They insisted. The human spirit of giving and kindness was a light in the darkness. We spoke through a translator, but their eyes had so much to say. Their pain and sadness, unfathomable. Up until now their stories, untold.
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The earthquake shook the ground of Marrakesh, Morocco’s fourth largest city. Clay buildings swayed and cracked, with some walls collapsing into the alleys of the ancient part of the city. The medina.
2900
people were killed. communities & families left broken.