Shelterbox display in Birmingham
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Mar 2011, 16.20 PM
City centre visitors will see a disaster relief tent alongside other items from a ‘Shelterbox’ this week as part of a fund-raising effort by members of Rotary International. The money raised will help provide emergency supplies to victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
Shelterbox is an international disaster relief charity who deliver boxes of aid, each of which provides a family with quality survival equipment to use while they rebuild their homes.
The display is in Chamberlain Square, by the Town Hall, until the end of Saturday (2nd April).
For more information go to www.shelterbox.org
Comments
Did they managed to raise more that enough funds? I can’t find any info
Thanks for your comment.
I don’t know how much was raised specifically in Birmingham, but if you have a look at the news archive pages on the ShelterBox Website http://www.shelterbox.org/news.php?category=1&cur_year=2011&page=3 you can read about the huge amount of support that the organisation was able to give to Japan following the disaster, including providing more than 1,500 ShelterBoxes.
Paul