SINGAPORE: Secondhand goods donated by people in Singapore for the victims of last month’s deadly Türkiye-Syria earthquake were either disposed of or handed over to a non-governmental organisat
Turkish Ambassador to Singapore Mehmet Burçin Gönenli told CNA on Tuesday that Türkiye only accepted new or unused clothing due to sanitary reasons.
“The NGOs are recycling them and distributing them to various countries in this region which needed them, but I don’t know specifically where.” CNA approached a handful of other NGOs to ask in general what they did with unwanted or unusable in-kind donations, such as clothing. These included items that were in their original packaging. The volunteers also checked how the items looked, he added.
The embassy began accepting donations of winter clothing and other supplies, including tents and women’s hygiene products, shortly after the earthquake struck on the morning of Feb 6.
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