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Shelterbox is a humanitarian organisation run by the Helston and Lizard Rotary club in Cornwall, England. The Shelterbox concept was invented by Tom Henderson an ex Royal Navy search and rescue diver who realised the need for a lifesaving shelter kit to the people directly affected by disaster be it civil or natural. The boxes are sent to anywhere in the world in a few hours notice. Requests for Shelterboxes have been made and delivered to Oxfam, UNHCR, Mercy Malasia, Red Cross etc. During the Asian Tsunami Shelterbox provided shelter for 150,000 people in India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Maldives, The Andaman and Nicobar islands and more recently the destroyed islands of Nias and Simileu.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Mark Pearson who has kindly agreed or us to reproduce his images on our
website is a professional photographer who donates his time and expertise to
Shelter box. Working as a humanitarian photographer he is, unlike the press,
able to gain access to areas worldwide which the news and media are not allowed
to venture into. In the past Mark has worked for a number of charities
including, the Red Cross, United Nations, Oxfam, Mercy Malaysia and Unicef. Due
to the nature of his work Mark is often one of the first representatives on the
ground, and gets personally involved in co-coordinating areas of the rescue and
the distribution of shelter box.