ShelterBox helps Typhoon survivors

ShelterBox helps Typhoon survivors

The stories coming out of the Philippines are unimaginable. Rushing water and wind tearing children away from their parents' arms. A death toll that's risen to over 10,000 and will likely rise.

One of the most intense typhoons on record, Haiyan ( known locally as Yolanda) has left catastrophic destruction behind in its wake.

Charities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world are responding to this disaster. Many like ShelterBox, are already providing aid and you can help them make a difference.

ShelterBox was already working in the Philippines in Bohol province, providing shelter to homeless families after the 7.2 earthquake that struck Bohol on 15th October. ShelterBox Response Teams who were working in Bohol are now busy expanding their operations using pre-positioned stocks to provide tents and other essential equipment for families left homeless after Typhoon Haiyan. Haiyan was the second category 5 typhoon to strike the Philippines this year.

Each ShelterBox is designed to help families who lose everything when disaster strikes. They provide emergency shelter, literally, and other lifesaving equipment and tools that help bring self-sufficiency and survival to the most immediate and needy of recovery efforts. They even contain a Children’s activity pack to keep them occupied.
Rotary International is a ShelterBox Project Partner, and aims to provide Shelter, Warmth and Dignity to people who have been displaced or made homeless due to natural or man-made disasters throughout the World.

Please help to support their work in the Philippines either online or by donating on the ShelterBox website at: www.shelterbox.org.nz

About Shelterbox
Since 2000, ShelterBox has provided shelter, warmth and dignity following more than 200 disasters in over 90 countries worldwide. The charity has provided shelter for more than 130,000 families in desperate need. Supported by Rotary International, ShelterBox instantly responds to earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, cyclones, tsunami or conflict by delivering boxes of aid and other vital supplies.

Each iconic green ShelterBox contains a disaster relief tent for an extended family, stove, blankets and water filtration system, among other tools for survival. ShelterBox New Zealand is administered by the Rotary Club of Mosgiel Charitable Trust based in Mosgiel, New Zealand and its goal is to help 50,000 each year.
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