Minister of Family and Social Services Derya Yanık reported that 1915 unaccompanied children had been registered in the Ministry's records from the provinces devastated by the earthquake, 1718 of whom were returned to their families and the number of unidentified children declined to 42.

Minister Yanık visited AFAD Coordination Center and Teknokent Container Site within the scope of Malatya program and listened to the demands and requests of earthquake survivors.

Moving to Mişmiş Park Tent City, Minister Yanık met with women who were members of Municipality Battalgazi Women's Cooperative, and inspected the site where psychosocial support was being provided for children and the social market.

Minister Yanık also visited the warehouse where in-kind donations were accepted, and then proceeded to Beydağı Temporary Accommodation Center to inaugurate the "Mola Evleri (Recess Houses)" prepared for children with special needs in cooperation with the International Down Syndrome Federation and İyiliğe Uçanlar Association.

Minister Yanık, who wished God's blessings to those who lost their lives in the earthquake and flood, and condolences to the wounded and the Turkish nation in her speech there, reminded that March 21 was World Down Syndrome Awareness Day and added that she was present with children with angelic hearts on the day.

Noting that “Mola Evleri” were opened for the families of persons with disabilities, Minister Yanık stated: "We will continue to expand “Mola Evleri” in the container and tent cities in the coming periods, where our brothers and sisters with disabilities can spend time and carry out educational activities with our friends with expertise."

Noting that the Ministry had two important responsibilities within the scope of the Türkiye National Disaster Response Plan, namely "psychosocial support activities" and "providing in-kind donation warehouse management" in case of disasters and emergencies, Minister Yanık shared numerical data on the latest activities carried out by the Ministry.

Minister Yanık stated the following:

"As of today, we have interviewed approximately 1.200.000 citizens with our 4.808 personnel in 11 provinces throughout all earthquake zones. There are places where citizens from the earthquake zone are settled and concentrated in other provinces. We continue to follow up the earthquake survivors and strengthen support mechanisms in those areas as well. In those areas, we have conducted nearly 550.000 interviews with our 5.213 personnel providing psychosocial support. We have provided psychosocial support to approximately 1.800.000 citizens with a total of 10.021 personnel. Hopefully, we will continue the next 2 years with psychosocial support activities very intensely once the acute phase is over.

We continue the process of supplying and delivering essential necessities to our citizens with 3.790 disaster emergency social assistance personnel and 641 vehicles within the scope of in-kind donations and warehouse management. We currently have 71 in-kind donation warehouses in operation. We have 16 international warehouses for materials arriving from overseas, which are located close to customs gates. The services continue with 87 warehouses in total. We have unloaded 19.099 trucks of materials to the warehouses managed by the Ministry. As of now, we have 203 social markets. We are setting up the social markets in container cities, tent cities and neighborhoods where our citizens can reach out to quickly. We also have 10 mobile social markets, of which 4 are currently serving in Malatya."

Stating that the Ministry had allocated a total of 1.399.650 TL for the earthquake survivors in the provinces affected by the earthquake and other provinces, Minister Yanık expressed that there was no loss of life or injury among the children, persons with disabilities and older persons staying in facility of the Ministry during the earthquake and that this was a consolation.

Minister Yanık, sharing the latest data on unaccompanied children, continued as follows:

"To this day, the Ministry has registered 1915 unaccompanied minors in our systems, 1718 of whom are unitied with their families. The number of children currently being followed up at the hospital is 110. Unfortunately, 2 of the children lost their lives while they were being treated at the hospital. We have now 85 children that we have taken into the care of the institution. The number of children in the care of the institution who are still unidentified is 42. We have brought this number down to 42 from a very high number. Hopefully, we will identify those children and if their families are found, we will contact them, and if not, we will continue to care for them in our facilities. Unfortunately, we have also identified 411 children who passed away due to the earthquake. We continue the process by informing their families about some of these children and delivering others to their families."