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A ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) carrying out a needs assessment in Fiji has found that affected communities are cut off by high floodwaters. The flooding has caused extensive damage to roads and bridges making aid delivery conditions challenging.

There is widespread damage to infrastructure in the western part of the south pacific island where thousands of families have been made homeless.

The main cities Sigatoka, Nadi, Lautoka, Tavua, Ba and Rakiraki are the worst hit areas and have been flooded by up to two metres of water in places.

UK charity ShelterBox says thank you to supporters

One year has passed since catastrophic scenes of destruction in northeast Japan shocked the world. A 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck 120 kilometres off the northeastern coast, triggering a massive tsunami that caused severe damage to the three districts of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.

UK-based disaster relief charity, ShelterBox, is sending an assessment team to Madagascar following Cyclone Giovanna.

The category four cyclone hit the eastern shores of Madagascar in the early hours of the morning on 14 February, bringing sustained strong winds of around 231 kilometres per hour and torrential rains.

ShelterBox Operations have been monitoring Cyclone Giovanna’s movement and have mobilised a Response Team that is expected to arrive on the island on 17 February to assess the need for emergency aid.

A Response Team from Cornish disaster relief charity, ShelterBox, is delivering emergency shelter in Brazil, following flash floods and landslides that struck the eastern states of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais.

Drought and on-going conflict in Somalia have forced over one million people to leave their homes. Around 400,000 people have been living in internally displaced persons’ (IDP) camps in the coastal town of Mogadishu.

ShelterBox has been working in partnership with Women And Health Alliance (WAHA) International to set up tents at IDP camps near medical centres to house patients and their families, particularly hospitalised women who cannot leave their children. These ‘medical villages’ offer shelter, comfort and dignity to those most vulnerable.

THURSDAY, 20 OCTOBER, 2011

A British aid worker has today spoken out about the human cost of the flooding in Thailand.

Stephen Crabtree, a ShelterBox Response Team volunteer, reports that floodwater is visible from ‘horizon to horizon’ in some areas having wiped away hundreds of homes and livelihoods.

Rising humanitarian concerns for 200,000 displaced Libyans caught up in conflict…

The ongoing civil unrest in Libya has led to an urgent and growing humanitarian crisis. The conflict has destroyed buildings, disrupted lives and caused many families to flee their homes.

Whilst hundreds of thousands of people have left the country, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has reported that over 200,000 people who have been displaced remain in Libya and that there are rising humanitarian concerns for people in the conflict-affected areas.

International disaster relief charity, ShelterBox, is standing ready to deploy emergency shelter and supplies to East Africa in response to the growing famine and refugee crisis. Two ShelterBox teams are already on the ground.

ShelterBox Founder and CEO Tom Henderson OBE said: ‘The situation in the Horn of Africa is incredibly complex and it’s imperative the international humanitarian community work in unison to bring aid to those people in need.

International disaster relief charity, ShelterBox, is responding to widespread flooding in Bolivia this week.

A national emergency has been declared following weeks of heavy rain in the region which triggered mass flooding and landslides. 50 people have lost their lives and thousands are now homeless.

A ShelterBox Response Team are on their way to the country's capital, La Paz, and will be working with the local Rotary network to establish the areas of greatest need.

Alf Evans, ShelterBox Operations Manager,