ShelterBox responds to floods in the Amazon

A ShelterBox Response Team is en route to Iquitos, the world’s largest city that is unreachable by road and situated next to the left riverbank of the Amazon River, to assess the need for emergency shelter.

Read more here: http://shelterboxusa.org/news_global.php?id=968

 

New sense of community for Lazaro in Peru

ShelterBox tents have been set up in Pumarangio, a high region of Cusco, for families who had been made homeless by heavy rains and landslides. Read about Lazaro Tambraico Huacho, a husband and father who had been forced to leave his home in the mountainous area of Cusco, Peru, after it was hit by a landslide. Lazaro, his wife Eulalia and two children were one of 51 families who had been left with nothing after their homes, possessions and livestock were destroyed by heavy rain running down the mountain to their hometown.

Read more here: http://shelterboxusa.org/news_global.php?id=967

 

Reuniting families in Congo

Many thousands of people were left homeless after several explosions ripped apart the Mpila neighborhood in Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo. As a result, they have been staying in overcrowded temporary shelter camps. ShelterBox has been distributing emergency aid to help people return to their land as quickly as possible.

Read more here: http://shelterboxusa.org/news_global.php?id=966

 

ShelterBox University: ShelterBox and the Rotary Project Partnership

Join us on the 23rd of April at 5:00 p.m. EST for this month’s ShelterBox University! This webinar featuring leaders from ShelterBox International, ShelterBox Canada and ShelterBox USA will provide North American Ambassadors with information on what the new partnership means to both organizations and our ability to best serve disaster survivors. The panelists are Lasse Petersen, deputy CEO of ShelterBox International, Emily Sperling, president of ShelterBox USA and Lisa Salapatek, executive director of ShelterBox Canada. Learn what being a Project Partner entails for ShelterBox, understand the process of how this Project Partnership came about, and obtain ways you can bring this exciting news back to your communities to help garner support for ShelterBox.