Melanie Joly has urged Canadians in Morocco to register with Global Affairs Canada after a deadly earthquake struck the country on Friday.
and injured about 1,832, but those numbers are expected to climb. The 6.8-magnitude quake is the biggest to hit Morocco in 120 years.
“What I know about the tragedy is in the urban places … we can have communication, we can have information,” he said in a phone interview. “However when we go to the rural places it’s very hard.” Mohamed Moutahir, chairperson of the organization — which supports African and Canadian orphans — said he spent the night trying to contact its partners in Morocco.
Moutahir said he is already seeing a “surge of solidarity” mobilizing to help victims of the quake. He and Sari are calling on the Canadian government to help with aid efforts.There are roughly 100,000 Canadians of Moroccan decent, according to the latest census. About 81,000 Moroccan Canadians live in Quebec, and nearly half of that population is in Montreal. Several Quebec politicians took to social media Saturday to express their concern and solidarity for those affected by the disaster.
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