For example, all warm baby clothes are put together, the thick blankets are put in one bag and non-perishable food is placed in sturdy cardboard boxes. Volunteers have been working on this for hours. Oguzhan has also been ‘on’ since yesterday morning. “I started at noon and everyone was gone at 4.30 am. And this morning I was back at 9 am,” he says. In between, his phone rings continuously. Then it’s someone who tries to organize food for all the volunteers – “about eighty, try to arrange lunch for them” – then someone who wants to donate some stuff. The latter is now often said ‘no’: it is simply too much stuff. “Remember,” says Oguzhan, suppressing another call on his phone, “we also have to transport everything to Turkey.”
Utrechters send trucks full of aid to earthquake area: ‘We hoped for 30 boxes, it turned out to be more than 2000’
