ShelterBox
ShelterBox
Solution Overview & Benefits
ShelterBox provides emergency shelter and essential survival equipment in a single unit.
ShelterBox produces watertight plastic boxes which contain durable supplies meant to temporarily shelter and sustain a single family. A purpose-designed tent provides shelter. The entire unit weighs approximately 100 pounds and is easy to carry and transport.
Items included:
- Tarpaulin: sheets of heavy-duty tarp can be used to create walls and roofs
- Rope(s): this universal essential can make shelters secure and stable
- Hoe(s): this tool can prepare the ground and later be used for farming
- Tie wire: fix tarpaulins or bamboo structures with 500g of wire
- Tin snips: the snips can be used to cut tie wire or tin roofing plates
- Handsaw: the saw will enable people to use timber or bamboo if it’s available
- Roofing nails: we include 500g worth of nails, with washers to seal out the rain
- Shovel: this can prepare foundations for a shelter or dig drainage ditches
- Nails: 1kg of timber nails will also secure any repairs
- Claw hammer: another universal tool for nailing together a home
- Curved needle: to stitch tarpaulins
- Tape measure: to measure distance for any projects or tasks
History & Development
Shelter is the foundation for life – for survival, stability and dignity. It offers a place to feel safe, stay together, stay healthy, earn a living and help children get an education.
We’re a global community that believes shelter is a human right, enabling people to take steps towards recovery.
Our Founder, Tom Henderson OBE, saw the humanitarian response in most disasters was in the form of food and medicine. Little or no assistance was being given in terms of safe, secure shelter to help families survive the first days, weeks and months as they try to rebuild their lives. ShelterBox was created to fill this void. Since our inception in 2000, we have responded to earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides, typhoons and conflict, delivering emergency humanitarian aid to families in need on every continent.
The ShelterBox solution in disaster response is as simple as it is effective. We deliver the essentials a family needs to survive in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. Each large, green ShelterBox is tailored to a disaster but typically contains a disaster relief tent for an extended family, blankets, water storage and purification equipment, cooking utensils, a stove, a basic tool kit, a children’s activity pack and other vital items.
We rely on public donations and could not operate without the generosity of people the world over. Our supporters constantly go the extra mile to help make a difference to the lives of families who survive disasters. We have had fundraisers climb Mount Kilimanjaro, row the Atlantic, cross India in a Tuk Tuk and even cycle 10,000 miles on a tandem. Every box we send out bears its own unique number so our donors can see where the box they have sponsored has gone.
Availability
- Publicly available: yes
- Countries where available: Worldwide
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