Abdallah's father-in-law turned his vehicle into a makeshift home for his sons and their families, covering the top of the truck with blankets and rugs for added insulation.Around here, much of the district has been reduced to rubble, from which rescuers from the White Helmets group recovered more than 500 bodies.
Across the town, the families of retired employee Abdelrahman Haji Ahmed and his neighbors now live in makeshift tents pitched in the middle of their demolished street. Ahmed held his little daughter, watched on by other children, and said that right now all his family needs is "one or two tents so that the families can rest.
The UN children's agency UNICEF stresses the urgent need for "access to safe drinking water and sanitation services, which are critical in preventing illness" following the quake.