There are places in the town of Islahiye in southern Turkey where we were not allowed to film because there were bodies on the streets.
Here the rescue operation is all but over, and while searches continue, it is the dead rather than the living that are being brought up from beneath the rubble of the hundreds of collapsed buildings.
Many of the dead and injured here are Syrian refugees, who came to escape hardship in their own country, just a few miles from the border.
In the town of Islahiye this is where many people live. In tents. They will stay there, probably for months. pic.twitter.com/apEUYOjbrU
— Justin McCarthy (@MrJustinMac) February 13, 2023
At the edge of the town there is a large tented village. The volunteers there have come from all over Turkey and right across the world.
A woman from Iraq who came here to help told us that the situation is desperate, especially for children.
She said they need more baby food, clothes and nappies, and they will need those things for months.
There are queues of people at a mobile charging station where they can charge up their phones. There are queues for the toilets, for washing facilities and for food.
Some of the people here are on edge as they try to process the enormity of what happened a week ago.
They are overcoming the initial shock, and beginning to consider their lives now, living in tents, surviving for a second time.
At the UNICEF field office in the city of Gaziantep an hour away, the head of their field office, Filippo Mazzarelli, told us that he is concerned about the children who have been made homeless.
Over 4.6 million children are affected by the earthquake, either directly or indirectly.
Some of them were injured, others were made homeless, and many died.
Many suffer the trauma of losing their homes, family members even parents.
Mr Mazzarelli says he does not know how many children are unaccompanied, but it is likely to be thousands.
In Islahiye we met a family of three generations. A young baby boy named Ali smiles and plays and grabs the pen from my hand.
His mother tells me how cold it is for him at night.
"Can you help us?" she asks me with a look of hopelessness and desperation in her eyes.
In this town, the stories of survival are only beginning, and the toughest weeks are ahead.
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