Dear Ambassadors,

I suspect that like us here at the ShelterBox USA HQ, your heart was heavy as you awoke late last week to see that a tornado outbreak affected lives across our country’s Midwest and parts of the south. A chain of storms that continued into the weekend.  As an Ambassador, we thought you may like to know what action we take when disasters impact our home country.  As was the case last week and through this weekend, we reach out to the most affected state and local emergency operations centers/managers to introduce the ShelterBox (more…)

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USA Grant Feb 2012 – Box v2

As you all know by now, our dear friend, fellow Rotarian and ShelterBox USA Ambassador, Kent Smith passed away just a few days after he was on our
January Development Committee Conference call.  Kent has been an active member of the Development Committee since it was created by our Board.
Kent had great ideas which he often enthusiastically shared with me during long discussions on the phone followed up by emails.  We finally met face
to face at last year’s Annual Conference in Washington, DC. We spent a lot of time together exploring ways the Development Committee could continue
to mature into a stronger, more versatile and productive component of the USA Board. (more…)

A category four cyclone hit the eastern shores of Madagascar in the early hours of the morning on February 14, bringing sustained strong winds of around 140 miles per hour and torrential rains. ShelterBox has been monitoring Cyclone Giovanna’s movement and has mobilized a response team that is expected to arrive on the island on February 17 to assess the need for emergency aid.

This will be ShelterBox’s second deployment to Madagascar, an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of Africa, which is prone to cyclones and tropical storms, especially in the rainy season between February and May.

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