Peoria North Rotary Club has received the Silver ShelterBox HERO Award for its contribution in the 2019-20 Rotary Year. This is the second year in a row that PNRC has earned Silver HERO Status with the Rotary International partner.
Peoria North has been the largest ShelterBox supporter two years running and the only Silver HERO Club in the District.
ShelterBox provides humanitarian aid in the form of family-sized tents and essential tools to start repairing and rebuilding homes. Additionally, the organization’s kits and boxes contain items that help transform shelter into a home, like cooking sets, solar lights, blankets, water filtration, and mosquito nets.
More than shelter, these items enable families to recover following disaster, providing a way to keep communities and families together and allowing them the space to focus on the future.
Since 2000, ShelterBox has provided shelter, warmth, and hope following more than 300 disasters in over 100 countries, having sheltered more than 1.6 million people.
ShelterBox serves the most vulnerable families who have been displaced due to earthquake, volcano, flood, hurricane, cyclone, tsunami, or conflict by delivering essential shelter aid and life-saving supplies. ShelterBox’s core aid items include a disaster relief tent for an extended family, blankets, a water filtration system, emergency lighting, and other tools for survival.
It is because of supporters like Peoria North Rotary Club that ShelterBox is able to shelter more families!