Shelter Box

Pete Griffith will present the Shelter Box and what happened since he came in December 2015.

More about Shelter Box, one of the organizations that received funding from our club this year, from their website:

"Right now, around 85 million people around the world have been displaced by natural disaster and conflict. ShelterBox is working to change this. Natural disasters and conflicts never take days off, and neither do we. We’re always on the ground, working to help the most vulnerable, no matter how remote. We’re hammering pegs, tying knots and building shelter right now. By providing emergency shelter and tools for displaced families, we’re transforming despair into hope. We are striving for a world where no family is left without shelter. Join the ShelterBox team. Make a difference."

Peter W. Griffith, Shelter Box Committee Chair 

Pete comes to your  club from the La Jolla Golden Triangle  Rotary club, which  he helped to charter back in une of 1986. Pete served this club as President for 18 months in 1993-94. Pete has been active at the  District level for many years serving as Governor's Area Rep., RYLA Camp Facilitator (2yrs.), District Conference Co-Chair for Steve Brown in Holtville, District Lt. Governor (2yrs.), Assistant Governor (3yrs.), District Foundation Annual Giving Chair (3yrs), District Foundation Chair (2yrs) and Governor's Chief of Staff for Dick Thorn. Pete was honored in 1999/2000 by being named District Rotarian of the Year and also received R. l.'s Rotary Foundation's Citation for Meritorious Service in 2004.

Pete is a Foundation Benefactor and a Major Donor, as well as a member of the Paul Harris Society of District 5340. The Shelter Box cause has drawn Pete's attention and as the Ad-Hoc Committee Chair, he comes to share the amazing story of how a single English Rotarian's idea of service has grown into an international effort to help make a difference in our world.