Displaced by last week’s earthquake, Moroccan families brace for shelter-less nights
LA TimesRachid Alachoun, a 40-year-old plumber, washes clothes on the roof of his home. So we waited,” Alachoun’s sister, Loubna, said from the coated polyester tent that she is sharing with another brother, their father, mother and a close family friend. Until Friday, Naima Ait Brahim Ouali, a house cleaner, lived on the third floor of an apartment building with her five children in Sourejdid, a now-destroyed neighborhood in Amizmiz. “This is always a major risk in humanitarian disasters or when earthquakes like this break and it’s very hard to reach certain areas.” Ait Brahim Ouali said that even if the government provides funds to rebuild, she doesn’t want to live in a multilevel apartment building made of bricks. We just started the new school year, but the earthquake came and ruined everything,” she said, standing under an umbrella outside a tent as children played inside.
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