Shelter Boxes

Shelter Boxes are provided and distributed to disaster areas by the Rotary Organisation. Each box provides a shelter and emergency supplies in order to sustain life in disaster situations.

In May 2008, Gerrards Cross Methodist Church held retiring collections at the end of four consecutive Sunday Services and raised in total £2000. This money was used to purchase four emergencies, which were sent out to disaster areas in Burma and China.

ShelterBoxes arriving in China

Tuesday 10th June - CHINA: ShelterBox is currently operating in the Qingchuan area 8hrs North East of Chengdu. Some of the remote mountain villages surrounding Qingchuan have received ShelterBoxes. A third ShelterBox Response Team are ready to deploy and should arrive for an in-country handover with team leader Greg Rogers in the next 48hrs. Team three includes one Australian member Paul Robinson and two UK members Graham Henderson & Mike Grenslade. Operations Manager Lasse Petersen commented on the great assistance the China Charity Federation and Rotary have been to ShelterBox throughout this series of deployments.

 

Thursday 29th May- CHINA: A further 650 tents left ShelterBox HQ yesterday with 650 planned to leave today and 700 due to leave immediately from the tent manufacturers warehouse in Shanghai.