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Rotary and ShelterBox working together in the Philippines

Rotarians from Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, towns in Mindanao that were worst affected by Typhoon Washi on 16 December, have offered their assistance to the ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) on deployment in the Philippines to help put up ShelterBox tents.

 

Response team volunteers Abner Tayco (PH) and Jesus Nicdao (PH), arrived in the country’s second largest island on 20 December. They found many families in need of emergency shelter and lifesaving supplies, having had their homes swept away by the flash floods. 

With nearly 1,000 people dead and over 280,000 displaced by the late-season tropical storm, Philippines President Benigno Aquino has declared a national calamity, according to the BBC:

‘First priority is to relocate to areas that no longer pose a danger to them,’ he told a meeting in Cagayan de Oro.

 

The ShelterBox team has been working with the local government to find suitable safe sites to pitch the ShelterBox tents. Abner and Jesus have also been demonstrating to volunteers from local Rotary clubs how to set up the ShelterBox tents.

‘The assistance we have had from Rotary has been invaluable here,’ said Jesus, himself a Rotarian and also Chairman and Founder of ShelterBox Philippines. ‘It is possible for Abner and I to set up the tents ourselves but it would have been a much slower process. Now that we have shown the Rotarians how to do it, they will be able to help us set up camps rapidly. This will allow families who have lost everything to soon begin to rebuild their lives, offering them shelter, warmth and dignity - assets everyone should have so close to Christmas.’

 

Prepositioned ShelterBoxes in the Philippine city of Clark have enabled the charity’s quick response and are being flown to the affected areas by the Philippine Air Force (PAF).

 

ShelterBox på Julemessen i Brørup

Ellen Marie Sørensen fra Holsted RK fortæller:

Handelsstandsforeningerne i Brørup og Holsted afviklede lørdag den 14. november deres fælles Julemesse. Det var lykkedes Holsted og Brørup Rotaryklubber, at få stillet en gratis stand tæt ved scenen til rådighed, hvor teltet kunne slås op og indholdet vises frem. For at lokke folk til, havde Thyge Bruun fra Holsted organiseret materiel til at bage pandekager, og Jan Vinum fra Brørup havde sørget for indsamlingsbøsser.

Shelterbox DVD-en kørte på den medbragte PC. Der var mange, som standsede og kiggede, og fik fortalt alt om, hvad projektet går ud på.

Hele overskudet fra pandekagesalget og det, som blev puttet i sparebøsserne – i alt 4.400 kr. - går ubeskåret til Sherlterbox.

 
Jan Vinum, Brørup, fortæller borgmester Egon Fræhr om ShelterBoxprojektet

 

 

Thyge Bruun og Svend Aage Hansen, Holsted, er ved at varme op til at bage pandekager. Ellen Marie Sørensen har gemt sig bag PC'en.

 

 

Svend Aage har travl med pandekager, Søren Rahbek, Holsted, ser til, at det går rigtigt for sig.

 

Shelterbox på 1450's distriktskonference

Vi møder her på Hotel Marselis i Århus stor interesse omkring vores medbragte Shelterbox og har haft af mange af de 190 deltagere på besøg i det opstillede telt. DG1450 Otto Juul Grantzau støtter stærkt op og vi fik lejlighed til, fra konferensens talerstol, at omtale Shelterboxprojektet og vores akutte behov for støtte til nye bokse til erstatning for dem der lige nu sendes til Stillehavsregionen.

Kim Holst fra Randers Vestre og Henrik Svane, Virum.

ShelterBox på distrikt 1440's konference i Rebild

Shelterbox.dk er lige nu på distrikt 1440's konference i Rebild. Vi har et telt oppe og indholdet af en box præsenteret. Der er stor interesse og mange spørgsmål. Vi har allerede modtaget bestilling på 1 box. Guvernør i 1450 Otto Juul Grantzau har sammen med sin kollega guvernør i 1470 Peter Stæremose fået demonstreret indholdet og set teltet indefra.

Tents go up in cyclone hit Bangladesh

WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE, BANGLADESH: ShelterBox has distributed 200 ShelterBoxes to people whose homes were destroyed by Cyclone Aila which hit Bangladesh on 25 May. The boxes, which will give help to up to 2,000 people, were distributed in and around the towns of Shyanmagar and Munshigaon, close to the border with India. “The recipients were so grateful. Whole villages had been destroyed and people were forced to live out in the open. The tents have given them the opportunity to start rebuilding their lives,” says SRT leader Pat Prendergast (UK). The other SRT volunteers were Stuart Oates (UK), Owen Smith (NZ) and Ron Noseworthy (Canada). ShelterBox volunteers were assisted by local Rotarians in the country. According to latest reports, more than 200 people were killed by the cyclone and 600,000 displaced.

ShelterBoxes sent to Philipines

Thursday 14 May, PHILIPPINES: One hundred ShelterBoxes are being despatched to the Philippines to give shelter to people affected by typhoons Chan-Hom and Kujira which struck the north of the country earlier this month. The boxes are being taken from pre-positioned stock in Melbourne. On arrival in Manila they will be trucked to Pangasinan Province, which bore the brunt of the typhoons. The government estimates that 13,881 homes in the province have been totally destroyed and 10,969 partially destroyed. The boxes will be distributed by ShelterBox Response Team volunteers Peter Pearce (Aus) and Lyndon Tamblyn (NZ). ShelterBox is working in the country with the National Disaster Co-ordination Council and local Rotarians.