The United States Agency for International Development has sent a specialized disaster response team to Turkey to help with rescue efforts in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake Monday that has killed thousands in the region.
The Disaster Assistance Response Team, or DART, will coordinate the U.S. government’s humanitarian response and USAID’s work with partners on the ground, including the Turkish authorities. Joining the DART are two of the agency’s urban search-and-rescue teams from Fairfax, Virginia, and Los Angeles, California. They arrived in the southern Turkish city of Adana on Wednesday.
The DART is a group of specialists trained in disaster relief skills who are quickly deployed by USAID in the aftermath of various international disasters.
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Omar Mohammed
Omar Mohammed is a Foreign Aid Business Reporter based in New York. Prior to joining Devex, he was a Knight-Bagehot fellow in business and economics reporting at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has nearly a decade of experience as a journalist and he previously covered companies and the economies of East Africa for Reuters, Bloomberg, and Quartz.
