Shelter Boxes Canada aids Haiti

News from Shelter Box Canada:

They have dropped the price of a Canadian ShelterBox to $1000.00 effective January 13, 2010 since the Canadian Dollar is about on par with U.S. dollar.

ShelterBox England is shipping in excess of 10,000 boxes per year and intends to increase that number each year. Consequently the price is not going up to equip each box, but rather is dropping in some cases due to increased purchasing power of our combined donations from different countries.

Haiti is going to be a major deployment of ShelterBox resources so this is the opportune time to come out with a better pricing plan for Canada and to allow more donors to purchase boxes.

256 ShelterBoxes that were dispatched from the prepositioned stock in Curacoa on Wednesday are due to touch down in Haiti late this afternoon, Haitian time, providing the plane they are on is cleared to land. However, the situation in Port au Prince is extremely fluid and logistics are changing minute by minute.

Aid workers for the international disaster relief charity ShelterBox have been in Port au Prince since Thursday and have been working around the clock assessing the most effective ways to distribute the much needed aid. The ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) members David Eby (US), Wayne Robinson (US) and Mark Pearson (UK) says the situation on the ground is frantic but they are doing all they can to make sure they deliver aid into Port au Prince as quickly as they can.

Shelter Box Canada is now using Canada Helps to collect their online donations.  You can now donate any amount to Shelter Box Canada through the Canada Helps Website and get a tax receipt right away.  Also Shelter Box is eligible to receive CIDA (Canadian Government matching funds).