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.
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.