Cash Relief for Morocco Earthquake Survivors

You can send funds directly to Moroccans impacted by the devastating earthquake.

On September 8th, the largest earthquake to hit the region in over 100 years struck Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains, with 450,000 people surrounding the Marrakech area estimated to be impacted. Communities near the epicenter in Al-Haouz, Chichaoua, and Taroudant were already among the poorest in the country and now struggle to afford food, medicine, safe shelter, and transportation out of impacted areas.

Our team has delivered cash to 9,000+ people in poverty in Morocco since 2019 and is working to reach survivors as quickly as we’re able to raise funds and establish secure payment channels. 

• We’re actively working with local partners to identify and prioritize impacted communities based on distance from the earthquake’s epicenter, poverty levels, and need.
• Most survivors we’ve reached still have access to functioning markets, banks, and local cash-points, but have only received food support or no aid at all. 
• Beyond structural damage and losing family members, survivors are reporting loss of livelihoods and psychological distress as their primary concerns. In some villages near the epicenter, 100% of survivors we spoke to have lost all sources of income after the earthquake.
• 450,000 Moroccans have been impacted by the earthquake; many are women, orphans, or otherwise financially vulnerable and need both immediate cash assistance and long-term recovery funds.
• In parallel with our short-term relief efforts and dependent on fundraising, we’re also scoping program models aimed at delivering long-term recovery funds to families living in the highest poverty areas. 
• We’ll be updating this page with more information as it comes.

Donating now helps ensure we have sufficient funds to scale our response and deliver cash to survivors immediately.

Even before the devastating earthquake, Moroccans were struggling with rising living costs, a global food crisis, extreme weather, and drought. Without a swift response, this will push the most vulnerable families further into poverty.

Jamila Abass
GiveDirectly Country Director in Morocco

If for any reason we are unable to launch a response, donations will be delivered to other Moroccans in poverty or survivors of the next global emergency.