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Chabad helping Ecuador quake victims

April 21, 2016 10:29
Rescue workers search the rubble in Gauyaquil.

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Rosa Doherty,

Rosa Doherty

1 min read

Members of a small Jewish community sent aid to victims of the earthquake which killed more than 300 people in Ecuador.

The 7.8-magnitude quake shook the country's Pacific coast last Saturday.

The 1,000-strong community of Guayaquil, which is hundreds of miles inland from the epicentre, organised trucks of food to be sent to families who had lost their homes and belongings.

Rabbi Uriel Tawil, Chabad of Ecuador director, said: "We immediately went to the grocery and began buying food to send.

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