Nepal, earthquake
Dear Friends, While we are continuously responding to new disasters, we’d like to take a moment to highlight the work made possible by your support in 2015. ShelterBox works every day to prepare for the worst day ever, ensuring we can respond with lifesaving aid to families who have lost everything in disaster and crisis situations. The aid we provide varies on the unique needs of each response - and often includes everything from the iconic green ShelterBoxes for families made homeless in disasters, to ShelterKits which provide essential tools to repair or rebuild damaged homes, to palletized aid -including water filters, solar lights, mosquito nets, cooking equipment, blankets, tools kits, and more. While the aid may vary depending on the response, our commitment to helping vulnerable families in crisis does not.
Malawi, flooding
With your support, ShelterBox delivered lifesaving supplies to 30,000 people devastated by 19 natural disasters and humanitarian crises in 18 countries/territories around the world last year. Meanwhile in 2015, ShelterBox continued to strengthen its relationships with other aid agencies and work with critical partners like Rotary International, to ensure we are providing aid in the most efficient and effective ways possible. But our most important ally in disaster relief is YOU! By supporting ShelterBox with charitable donations, volunteering, or helping to spread awareness on social media, you directly helped to provide shelter and hope to disaster survivors globally in 2015. We are humbled by your participation and request your continued involvement in 2016. The need for the work of ShelterBox is great, but our desire to make a difference is even greater. Together, we can help even more vulnerable families in 2016. Please accept our sincerest thanks!
Year In Review: 2015
Madagascar, flooding
Malaysia, flooding President, ShelterBox USA
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is to deliver humanitarian relief in the form of equipment and materials that bring shelter, warmth and dignity to people affected by natural and other disasters worldwide.
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2015
ShelterBox provided shelter for 30,000 people in 18 different locations around the world:
Nepal, Syria, Greece, Iraq, Pakistan, Gaza, DPRK, Cameroon, Niger, Tanzania, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vanuatu, Columbia, Chile, & Paraguay.
Greece
Donation funded. Volunteer Driven. Syria
Nepal
Meet 92 year old Maili Dotel, a ShelterBox recipient in the Sindhupalchok district of Nepal, who survived the 2015 earthquake. Maili was one of the thousands of survivors that ShelterBox assisted after the earthquake devastated Nepal. She was just 11 years old when the earthquake in 1934 struck in both Nepal and India. When asked which earthquake was bigger, she replied, “The one in April [2015] was much bigger as all of the buildings crumbled into nothing.” Men from her village told her not to worry as they will rebuild her house for her while she stays in a temporary tin-roof shelter. Alone when the quake hit, Maili tried to run but couldn’t. A neighbor pulled her to safety as they watched their houses fall to the ground.
Cameroon
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Chile
Malawi
Meet Maili
Tanzania
“It was a hugely challenging exercise to reach these remote communities, but by working in partnership with the Nepalese Army we overcame the numerous obstacles put in our way,” said ShelterBox Response Team member Sallie Buck, pictured with Maili and Rotoracter Ashish Chaulagain.
Nepal
Your support Syrian Refugee Crisis 3,111 families were helped in Syria during the multifaceted conflict utilizing six disaster aid partners. ShelterBox was one of the first organizations to send teams and emergency shelter to Lesbos, Greece to assist local municipalities overwhelmed by the influx of refugees.
gave shelter, warmth and dignity to tens of thousands in 2015:
Africa
In Cameroon, 1,224 families fleeing violence in Burundi were provided emergency shelter, while an additional 998 families were helped in Tanzania. And in Malawi, 2,124 families were provided boxes, kits and/or tarps after severe flooding destroyed homes and drops.
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South America
In Chile, ShelterBox teams responded to two simultaneous disasters within the same country: severe flooding in the south and the multiple eruptions of the Calbuco Volcano in the north. Some 1,500 families were provided ShelterKits and other lifesaving equipment.
Melamchi, Nepal April 2015
The largest deployment of 2015, ShelterBox provided shelter for 13,513 families. The two earthquakes affected 2.8 million people, killing 8,700 and destroyed 505,745 buildings. Pre-positioned ShelterBoxes were immediately distributed to damaged medical facilities.
The Royal Family chose ShelterBox as a beneficiary for the Royal Film Performance of the James Bond film, Spectre. “We are so pleased that this evening’s event will benefit [the] very worthwhile charity – ShelterBox, in recognition of their work providing emergency response and resilience building in Nepal following the earthquake.”