Shelter BoXとは、2000年に発足し、これまでにも数多くの災害地にテント、物資、衣料品など必要なものを頑丈なコンテナに詰めて送る活動をしてきた災害地支援団体です。
ShelterBox was founded in year 2000 and have responded to over 230 disasters and humanitarian crises by delivering essentials to people who needed assistance in rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of a disaster. These items are shipped in containers and includes items such as tents for families, thermal blankets and groundsheets, water storage, and purification equipment, solar lamps, cooking utensils, mosquito nets, and children’s activity pack.
2004年のインド洋の津波、2010年のハイチ地震やシリア危機、昨年のフィリピンにおけるタイフーンハイエン被害の現場などにシェルターボックスを送り続けてきました。
Recent supports included 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2010 Haiti earthquake, 2013 Typhoon in the Phillippines Typhoon,, and shelterBox has continued to send boxes to those in need.
こうした被災地の子供たちへの心のケアも忘れない姿勢や、個人がスポンサーした場合、自分がスポンサーしたボックスがどこに送られたかをボックスの番号でトラッキングできるようにするシステムも高く評価されている慈善団体です。
The box with cover is made as a place container, but also as a bed for smaller child and a bath. The box contains a tent that can sleep up to 10 people, thermal blanket, cooking gadgets, and also items for children such as drawing books. The organization is widely supported and popular because of these special support to children, and if a personal person sponsors a box, that box can be tracked where it went through a “box number”.
In 2011, in the aftermath of Tohoku earthquake and Tsunami, by March 15, already 400 boxes were sent to Sendai, and total of 1,680 boxes were sent to Japan to support the Japanese people.
今まで各地に送られたボックスは世界75カ国以上の被災地あてに10万個以上。
ShelterBoxでは、この箱をどこにでも発送できる準備を常に整えているとのことです。
ShelterBox has so far sent over 1,000,000 boxes to over 75 countries all over the world.
At ShelterBox, boxes are already set up, ready to be shipped out when ever and where ever there is a need.
Japan Fair 2014を通じてこのShelterBoxの活動にも興味を感じられた方は、ぜひShelterBox.orgにアクセスしてみてください。
For those of you who would like to know more about ShelterBox, please visit their website, sheltrbox.org.
Providing shelter, warmth and dignity to disaster survivors worldwide
ピンバック: Cherry Blossoms @ Japan Fair | Gloria Silverstone