The UN estimates that close to 5.4 million people affected by the quake will need help with shelter around the country.
- It is a huge number and affects a population where many are already homeless, says Dhanapala.
- For Syria, this is a crisis within the crisis.
We have had an economic shock, covid and are now deep into winter.
Survivors of the quake have gathered at camps for people displaced from other parts of Syria by 12 years of war.
Many have lost their homes and are too afraid to return to damaged buildings.
Close to 23,000 people in Turkey and Syria have died as a result of the quake, which is one of the worst disasters to hit the region in a century.
In Syria, more than 3,300 people have lost their lives.