Steve Sleight, a mountain guide living in Morocco, is helping those caught up in the disaster.
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"I ran down and out and, as I opened the front door, I couldn't see anything, just clouds of dust everywhere. Mr Sleight, who has been working there as a mountain guide for the past two years, said he and his "tiny team" of friends were helping to transport food, water, sanitary products, tents and basic first aid kits to those affected in villages higher up the mountain.
"Your first thought is 'hope he's OK and all the people around him', but it's always a shock when somebody you know is right there in the middle of a global tragedy," said Mr Beynon, chief executive of Jacob's Well.
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