is a world in which all people displaced by disasters and humanitarian crises are rapidly provided with emergency shelter and vital aid, which will help rebuild their communities and lives

ShelterBox Vision

Pakistan 2010

ShelterBox rapidly provides emergency shelter and vital aid to stabilize, protect and support

communities overwhelmed by disaster and humanitarian crisis.

Warehouse at ShelterBox HQ

What does ShelterBox do?

The green ShelterBoxes are full of lifesaving equipment.

ShelterBox prides itself in reacting quickly.

ShelterBox Response Teams accompany the boxes to ensure they reach those most in need.

Democratic Republic of Congo

What happens when a disaster strikes?

Turkey 2011

ShelterBox Operations• Monitor disasters constantly so can respond immediately

• First to react when disaster strikes

• Coordinate deployment and logistics

• First point of contact for SRTs

Timescales

Colombia 2010Thailand 2011

• Decision – ASAP. (Team / Assessment Team / Boxes)• Team Arrival – 48 hrs• Box Arrival – Instant (prepos) / 5 days (air) / 3 weeks (sea)• Teams – Individuals (2 weeks – 6 months)• Deployments – 2 weeks up to 2 years • Follow ups – 4-6 months after deployment finish

Monitoring

• News

• Internet

• Alertnet

• GDACS

• SRTs

• Rotarians

• Emails

Pre-deployment• ShelterBox Ops alerted to disaster• Verify need• Assemble an SRT • Brief them about the deployment• SRT travel to disaster-struck

country within 48 hours• Ops research logistics: air freight,

box locations, consignee, etc.• Few minutes – one week

Indonesia 2005

Kenya 2012

During deployments• First SRT arrives to assess need – what level, who needs it &

where• SRT contacts Ops with updates• If need found, Ops decide where ShelterBoxes come from:

- Prepositioned – instant arrival

- Air – up to 5 days

- Sea – up to 3 weeks

Indonesia 2005 Storage at Newquay Airport

• SRT arrange a consignee• Distribute ShelterBoxes• Last SRT flies home• Number of SRTs on each

deployment varies depending on size of disaster

Sri Lanka 2005

Post deployment

• SRT members individual debriefs – verbal, ideally within 1 week of return

• SRT members deployment debrief – written, ideally within 1 month

• Follow up/evaluation programmes – 4-6 months after deployment ends if needed

Thailand 2012

Haiti

January 12, 2010 16:53

Haiti 2010

ShelterBox was putting a team

together within 12 minutes

Haiti 2010

More than 28,000 ShelterBoxes sent

Haiti 2010

61 volunteers from UK, USA, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand & Australia

Haiti 2010

Haiti 2010

Japan Earthquake

Japan 2011

Day 1

05:46 – Earthquake

06:33 – GDACS Alert received by

ShelterBox

06:45 – Conversation with

Operations re SRTs to

be mobilized

07:00 – Team mobilized with one

lead on standby for other countries

affected

07:15 – SLT meeting at

ShelterBox HQ

07:30 – ShelterBox response

announced

Japan 2011

Japan Earthquake

06:33 Red Earthquake Alert Japan Summary

On 3/11/2011 5:46:23 AM UTC (about 15:15h local time) an earthquake of magnitude 8.8 occurred in

the unpopulated region of Tohoku in Japan. The earthquake happened 128km from Sendai. The

nearest populated places are: [None]. The closest civilian airport is Sendai (128km).

It is likely that a tsunami was generated. The maximum tsunami wave height near the coast of

Kamaishi will be 8.6m. Please refer to the GDACS tsunami report for more details.

Potentially affected critical infrastructure:

Nuclear plants: FUKUSHIMA-DAIICHI (154km), FUKUSHIMA-DAINI (161km), ONAGAWA (76km)

Hydrodams: [None]

Airports: Sendai (128km), Kasuminome (125km), Matsushima (100km), Junmachi (174km), Ojojibara

(133km), Hanamaki (163km)

Ports: Soma (134km), Shiogama (116km), Ishinomaki (91km), Onagawa (80km), Kesennuma Ko

(90km), Ofunato (99km), Kamaishi (113km), Yamada (132km), Miyako (150km), Fudai (190km)

Japan Earthquake

Based on an automated impact model, this earthquake, which occurred in a region with low

vulnerability to natural disasters, has potentially a high humanitarian impact.

Whether international humanitarian aid is needed must be decided by an expert.

Event Date Univ. Time: Fri, 3/11/2011 05:46 UTC

European Time of the event:Fri, 3/11/2011 06:46 CET (Brussels, Paris, Rome)

East America Time of the event:Fri, 3/11/2011 00:46 EST (New York, Washington)

West America Time of the event:Thu, 3/10/2011 21:46 PST (San Francisco, Los Angeles)

East Asia Time of the event:Fri, 3/11/2011 14:46 JTI (Tokyo) 

This email report was automatically created by a computer at: 3/11/2011 6:32:09 AM UTC (45 minutes

after the event) For information on emergency response, please consult the GDACS Virtual OSOCC.

Tsunami Event

It is likely that a tsunami was generated. Based on precalculated scenarios, the maximum tsunami wave

height near the coast of Kamaishi will be 8.6m.

A detailed tsunami wave height calculation is ongoing and should be available 20 minutes after this

report was created. Results can be slightly different than the precalculated scenario. The outcome can

be checked here: GDACS tsunami report .

Tracking tsunami

Within 24 Hours

• Team on Ground, 2 in Tokyo to arrange logistics of box clearance and transportation and 2 travelling to affected area to undertake needs assessment

• Consignee identified• Free air freight secured into Tokyo• Boxes packed and ready for dispatch

1,680 boxes deployed

Japan 2011

Since 2001…• Over 130,000 ShelterBoxes have been distributed• Over 230 deployments• More than 90 different countries• Helping over 130,000 families

Warehouse packing at ShelterBox HQ Pakistan 2010