ShelterBOX Update

ShelterBOX has now served in 100 countries, and Ross showed a super video which grabbed your heart when it showed some of the horrible conditions at disaster locations. Knowing that our Club has provided at least one and often more of these green boxes to help somewhere is gratifying, but seeing what the need is gives us motivation to keep this charity on our "to-do" list.

 

Ross has now represented ShelterBOX in Illinois and in the South during the winter for seven years. We learned of it when a Brit from Cornwall who was involved with the original efforts there. He happened in to our meeting during a visit to his daughter in Long Grove (details may be sketchy) at a meeting when the speaker didn't show, and he became the program.

 

Lyle and Ross enumerated the various contributions we have made. These included Katrina, Haiti, Myanmar, and others. It was interesting to see that ShelterBOXes have even be sent to North Korea. 

 

There is a slide show here with some info about the contents of the box, which costs $1,000, and about the organization.