Turkey quake: How children experience – and recover from – disaster

Children covered in dirt and grime, many shoeless, wait for food in a field outside a camp for internally displaced people in this southeastern Turkish city. Many of the children are Kurdish, many impoverished, and now, in the wake of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit this region last week, many are homeless.

They sleep in tents, curled up next to cousins and siblings, trying to stay warm.

Here in Gaziantep, they wait for aid. When the government supply truck arrives, usually once a day, they run toward its white, hulking form. The truck stops, and a young man, dressed in civilian clothes, leans out of the back.

The children