The most powerful seismic event to have shaken our country in over a century, the devastating magnitude 6.8 earthquake in southern Morocco on the night of Friday, September 8, 2023, whose epicenter was located in the province of Al-Haouz, southwest of Marrakech, which shook the entire nation and caused extensive human and material damage, resulting in a human tragedy. Millions of poor survivors urgently need help.
The survivors of the earthquake are mourning not only the immense and tragic loss of human life, but also the destruction of their infrastructure and the misery caused by the arrival of the deadly cold winter season in the high Atlas Mountains. These communities no longer have any safe shelter, nor the resources to re-establish essential infrastructure on their own.
1,200 Jood volunteers have been mobilizing in the Grand Atlas, since we learned of the scale of the damage and destruction caused by the earthquake, to help over 5,600 injured people. We have distributed emergency and first-aid, but Jood quickly launched the rehabilitation of the 1st village in Aseflala, which benefited from the rehousing of 22 families, with the installation of 22 prefabricated dwellings and 2 sanitary units and the necessary infrastructure (wateel, ectrification, septic tank)
Jood Villages comes to install prefabricated houses and strengthen the infrastructure and improve a sustainable economy in the region. We have set up workshops to produce the houses, and sanitary units, which guarantee a work opportunity for local young people who will benefit from remuneration, and training under the supervision of 2professionals in the trade. These blocks are built with materials guaranteed for 10years, to be used as classrooms and dispensaries for the benefit of the villagers
