Thursday, July 2, 2009

More ShelterBoxes Sent to Sri Lanka

An additional 200 ShelterBoxes are being sent to Sri Lanka to give emergency shelter to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who were forced to leave their homes by the recent fighting in the country.

The aid – due to have arrived in the country on 21 June - will be sent to Menik Farm (Zone 3) in the Vanni region where ShelterBox has already distributed 448 ShelterBoxes. “There is still a great need for emergency shelter in the country,” says SRT member Laura Jepson who returned from the country on 12 June. Read more ...

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