Morocco FA to donate gate takings to earthquake victims

International friendly 

The Royal Moroccan Football Federation has announced that it will donate all the proceeds from the friendly match held on Tuesday 12 September 2023 between the Atlas Lions and its counterpart from Burkina Faso.

The proceeds will be directed to a Special Fund dedicated to receiving voluntary solidarity contributions for managing the consequences of the earthquake.

A majority of the proceeds will come from the Moroccan community living abroad. 

The match will take place within the three-day national mourning declared by the Royal Office of King Mohammed VI.

The search is still on 

Hopes dimmed on Tuesday in Morocco’s search for survivors, four days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,900 people, most of them in remote villages of the High Atlas Mountains, according to AFP. 

Search-and-rescue teams from the kingdom and from abroad kept digging through the rubble of broken mud-brick homes, hoping for signs of life in a race against time following the 6.8-magnitude quake late Friday.

The Red Cross appealed for more than $100 million in aid to meet the "most pressing needs" in the North African country, including water, shelter, health and sanitation services.

"We need to make sure we avoid a second wave of disaster," said Caroline Holt, global director of operations at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies