humanity in motion
rotary international in great britain
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Rotary Club of
Godalming Woolsack
humanity in motion
rotary international in great britain
and ireland
Godalming Woolsack Rotary Club sprang into action over the weekend of 16th & 17th January 2010 by collecting money outside Waitrose to provide ShelterBoxes for Haiti.
Each box provides a custom made quality tent for ten people. Inside the strong plastic container there is a wood burning or multifuel stove, pans and utensils, water storage and purification equipment, a toolkit containing a hammer, an axe, a saw and a shovel and even a little pack for children containing crayons etc.
The cost of each box is £490, which includes transportation to the affected area and the donations we received were in excess of £4300. These were supplemented by a contribution from club funds enabling us to pay for 10 ShelterBoxes.
Within 4 days of the ‘quake 256 boxes had arrived in Haiti having been dispatched from Curacao, and a further 70 were on their way from El Salvador. Another 700 had left the United Kingdom on their way via Miami and courtesy of Virgin Atlantic. Many more were urgently needed.
In the following weeks, our Youth Committee worked with 5 local schools (Chandler School, Busbridge Infant, Busbridge Junior, Loseley Fields Primary and Godalming Junior) and the Milford Guides and Brownies to raise more funds. The children at each school had expressed a wish to do something to help children in Haiti and from their various activities they raised an amazing £4,900, enough to pay for another 10 emergency shelterboxes for Haiti.
Rotary Woolsack thanks the good residents and shoppers of Godalming, the children of the schools and their families and friends who all responded in a very generous way to enable this emergency aid to be sent to Haiti.
Shelter Boxes have also been dispatched to Sumatra and one to the
Philippine typhoon
Sumatra earthquakes
RAF C-17 Flies to the aid of Columbian flood victims with more shelterboxes
Link to our twin club in The Netherlands
A C-17 Globemaster aircraft based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire recently flew to Colombia in order to deliver vital aid to victims of a disaster that has so far claimed hundreds of lives and left thousands more homeless.
The C-17 from RAF Brize Norton was carrying more than 400 Shelter boxes packed with tents, food and other essential supplies. Within 24 hours the much needed Shelter Boxes were being unloaded by the Colombian Army at Cartagena airfield in the north of the country and packed onto trucks for delivery to the worst affected areas in the south.
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