A simple yet great idea
Feb. 17th, 2010 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrOne of the organizations providing aid in Haiti: Shelterbox. Each box is shipped to people in a disaster area, to provide supplies to up to ten people for up to a year:
The box contains a ten-person tent, a children’s pack containing drawing books, crayons and pens, a range of other survival equipment including thermal blankets and insulated ground sheets, essential in areas where temperatures plummet at nightfall. Where malaria is prevalent mosquito nets are supplied, as well as water purification tablets. Camp stove, cooking pots and dishes and plastic water carriers. A basic tool kit containing a hammer, axe, saw, trenching shovel, hoe head, pliers and wire cutters can be found in every box. The box itself is lightweight and waterproof and has been used for a variety of purposes in the past - from water and food storage containers to a cot for a newly born baby.
It's an impressive organization. Follow on Twitter at @ShelterBox and on Facebook here.
Each box costs an average of $1000 (£490) including all materials, packing, storage and distribution to individual recipients worldwide. Based on six months use only this equates to 27 pence per person per day. All ShelterBoxes are individually numbered. When an individual or group makes a donation to ShelterBox they will be given a specific box number that their donation has gone towards funding. Donors can then track their box and find out where in the world it has been sent. USA donation page is here, UK donation page is here.
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The box contains a ten-person tent, a children’s pack containing drawing books, crayons and pens, a range of other survival equipment including thermal blankets and insulated ground sheets, essential in areas where temperatures plummet at nightfall. Where malaria is prevalent mosquito nets are supplied, as well as water purification tablets. Camp stove, cooking pots and dishes and plastic water carriers. A basic tool kit containing a hammer, axe, saw, trenching shovel, hoe head, pliers and wire cutters can be found in every box. The box itself is lightweight and waterproof and has been used for a variety of purposes in the past - from water and food storage containers to a cot for a newly born baby.
It's an impressive organization. Follow on Twitter at @ShelterBox and on Facebook here.
Each box costs an average of $1000 (£490) including all materials, packing, storage and distribution to individual recipients worldwide. Based on six months use only this equates to 27 pence per person per day. All ShelterBoxes are individually numbered. When an individual or group makes a donation to ShelterBox they will be given a specific box number that their donation has gone towards funding. Donors can then track their box and find out where in the world it has been sent. USA donation page is here, UK donation page is here.