It has been a long and cold few months since a ** in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco leveled the impoverished village of Abdallah Oubelaid.
Every day, he or other villagers came to inspect the ruins. They hope to find wood for heating and cooking, or even to recover valuable items that have been lost so far. Meanwhile, a grumbling Obered has been wondering when he'll get the ** aid he's requested.
Every time I asked, they told me it was going to happen," said Obered, 35. "But I'm going to feed the children and clothe them. ”
Moroccan authorities said that on September 8 occurred 6In Level 8**, about 3,000 people died and more than 60,000 houses were damaged.
In the village of Douzrou, where Oubelaid is located, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the city of Marrakech, local residents say the death toll is about 80.
A pink-and-white mosque minaret stands among the ruins of a village at the corner of the mountainside.
Survivors of 150 families found refuge in rocky ground a few kilometers away by a road with views of snow-capped mountains.
About 120 of them were helped. They receive either a monthly stipend of 2,500 dirhams ($249) or a reconstruction fee of 20,000 dirhams.
The rest, like Obered, said they didn't know why they didn't receive anything.
As of the end of January, Morocco** said there were about 57600 families received a monthly subsidy, more than 44000 families received reconstruction assistance.
Prime Minister Aziz Ahnush said he had set himself the challenge of responding quickly and effectively to the expectations of the local population. ”
However, some people are still in desperate need of help.
Since January, hundreds of people from the area south of Marrakech in Talutan province and the town of Kubu in Talatnia have demonstrated to delay payments and reconstruction aid in difficult winter conditions, local ** said.
Last month, left-wing MP Fatima Tamni, when asked Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit, said the reconstruction was "still steeped in haze and improvisation".
According to Hespress News**, she called on Latit to take action.
Morocco stated that some applications were rejected because residents were not living in the affected area at the time of the occurrence or that their houses were still habitable.
In big towns like Amizmiz, workers and excavators are busy.
Everything seems to have returned to normal, although many families are still living in dozens of yellow tents donated by **. The tents, covered with tarpaulins to protect against rain and the cold of the mountains, occupied every clearing.
In their misfortunes, the Duzrou survivors were fortunate that the Moroccan and Dutch non-** organizations had built barracks for them, and they were cut off from the cold.
Hamed Oumend, 68, looked at the hut built next to the others and said, "Without this, more people would have been killed by the wind recently." "From above, they look like rolls of aluminum foil.
It saved us. ”
The elderly villager has been collecting signatures for a petition calling for the rebuilding of Douzrou, which is a little lower than their camp, in the hope that it will be safer.
They are determined to stay on their land, but also realize that in the local Berber language, also known as amazigh, the name of this vibrant village means "under the rocks".
They fear another catastrophe in this isolated community, which means fewer people go to the doctor and less food**. Ormond said people there are still in a state of shock.
When their villages disappeared, they all lost loved ones, or barely managed to keep themselves.
People had to crawl out of the rubble to get out of their homes," he recalled.
Some are still traumatized. ”