Flooding in the UK, a super typhoon in the Philippines and a cyclone in Fiji, ShelterBox continues to help families displaced by disaster all over the world this holiday season. After a week of heavy...
Philippines + 1 more
Philippines + 1 more
Flooding in the UK, a super typhoon in the Philippines and a cyclone in Fiji, ShelterBox continues to help families displaced by disaster all over the world this holiday season. After a week of heavy...
ShelterBox has been in Nigeria since the end of October responding to heavy flooding that has devastated Kogi State, leaving over two million people homeless according to the United Nations Office...
A ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) has arrived in Fiji to assess the need for emergency shelter following Cyclone Evan, the biggest cyclone to strike the Pacific nation in two decades that has left...
33-year-old Rotarian Alfrancis Verdida is from Iligan City's Lanao del Norte in the Northern Region of Mindanao Island, Philippines. He is a nurse by profession but is currently helping ShelterBox...
Samoa + 1 more
Flattened homes, uprooted trees and flooded streets. This scene of destruction is being described in media reports about the South Pacific island nation of Samoa, where a powerful cyclone has just...
Thailand + 1 more
This year ShelterBox conducted monitoring and evaluation programmes, which involved returning to countries where ShelterBox had deployed aid in response to major disasters. Each programme collated...
'As we were driving I saw miles and miles of people lined up on both sides of the road holding cardboard signs asking for donations of anything like food or water, eyes desperate and scared. I have...
Iraq + 2 more
Children’s worlds are turned upside down when disaster strikes and their day-to-day lives can be changed irrevocably due to experiencing high levels of trauma. ShelterBox tries to bring a level of...
Iraq + 4 more
Hundreds of thousands of Syrian civilians are displaced from their homes due to unrest in the Syrian Arab Republic that has been mounting since March 2011. To date, over 411,000 people are estimated...
Suleimon Idis is the closest thing the village of Atakpa in central Nigeria has to a doctor. He is a dispensary officer who works with people who have become sick during the recent flooding. People...
A ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) is returning from Haiti after two weeks of assessing the need for emergency shelter and working with partners to coordinate distributions across the country. Liaising...
Iraq + 1 more
With almost 20,000 Syrian refugees living at Domiz camp in Iraq Kurdistan, it's no wonder that a new business opens up each day there, be it a convenience store, bakery, clothes stall or cafe. ...
Iraq + 1 more
Syrian refugee children were excited as they received ShelterBox stationery packs at the school at Domiz refugee camp in Iraq Kurdistan last week. There are thousands of children amongst the 20,000...
Uganda + 1 more
Grace Mutuwa used to live in her house in Bududa, a district in eastern Uganda. But, like many others, she was made homeless last July when heavy rains caused landslides on the slopes of Mount Elgon...
ShelterBox has been working across the Caribbean to assess the need for emergency shelter following destructive Hurricane Sandy. The catastrophe has been just one of many to hit the small nation of...
The ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) on the ground in Nigeria has been working with Rotary in the flood stricken country, whilst awaiting the arrival of the first consignment of boxes. SRT members,...
A ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) has been carrying out emergency needs assessments in Guatemala's San Marcos, a region devastated by two strong earthquakes in the last week. The most powerful tremor...
Haiti + 2 more
ShelterBox has Response Teams in Cuba and the United States responding to the damage Hurricane Sandy left behind as well as one en route to Haiti today. Around 18,000 homes have been flooded, damaged...
A ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) has been assessing emergency shelter needs in Nigeria, which is currently suffering from the worst flooding in five decades that has forced thousands of families from...
Haiti + 1 more
Hurricane Sandy ripped through Cuba and Haiti last week before it reached the United States, destroying livelihoods and infrastructure with its high winds, heavy rains and flooding. ShelterBox has...