HESTON, England, March 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- UK-based ShelterBox, an international disaster relief charity that provides emergency shelter and life-saving supplies to families around the world who ...

HELSTON, Cornwall, March 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The first Japanese families have moved in to ShelterBox tents less than two weeks after a quarter of a million people were made homeless by the ...

NEWTOWN – The Newtown Rotary has donated $1,000 to have a ShelterBox delivered to the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. “We wanted to offer meaningful help to the people of Japan and the ...

ShelterBox is sending kits to Japan to help with relief efforts. The packs are somewhat of a marvel when it comes to efficient packaging — they pack 100 lbs of equipment in just 33 x 24 x 22 inch box.

ShelterBox has sent 20 boxes containing tents and survival equipment to Tokyo, 200 are en route and 5,000 are packed ready to go. But a spokesman said there may be problems transporting the boxes to ...

Mark Dyer of Elmhurst is a response team member volunteer with the non-profit organization ShelterBox, which is headquartered in the U.K. On Tuesday, he boarded a plane to Japan where he will relieve ...

A quarter of a million people were made homeless in the disaster. The tents have been set up in villages in the Iwate Prefecture, where police say almost 11,000 structures were totally destroyed. The ...