A Turkish businessman running a donation centre in Roath is struggling to get hundreds of donations shipped to hard-to-reach areas.
So far, Hassan Kaya, General Manager of International Food Centre on City Road, has collected hundreds of boxes full of clothes, blankets, tents and food.
Viviana Novelli, an Engineering Lecturer at Cardiff University is awaiting a call to join architecture teams in Turkey as they study why so many buildings collapsed in the earthquake.