Where We Are Working

ShelterBox has a team on the ground in Bangladesh after heavy rainfall in August led to severe flooding across the eastern region.  

We’re speaking with our partners, Uttaran and Rotary, to gather as much information as we can.

Hundreds of thousands of homes are no longer habitable, so any response is likely to focus on supporting people with emergency shelter.

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ShelterBox is responding in the Caribbean after Hurricane Beryl left a trail of devastation across the islands.

We’re partnering with Rotary to get emergency shelter aid and other essential items to thousands of people uprooted from their homes in Grenada.

Right now, entire communities are living out in the open or in overcrowded buildings like schools. We’ll be providing tents as well as essential items like mosquito nets, solar lights, and cooking sets.

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A powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Morocco late on Friday, September 8th, 2023, 43 mi south of Marrakesh. Thousands have been killed, and half a million people displaced.

We’re responding in Morocco, supporting thousands of people left homeless by the earthquake. We’re working hard to get tents, thermal blankets, solar lights, and kitchen sets to communities without adequate shelter in mountain villages.

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Heavy rainfall in early 2024 has caused severe flooding in central Malawi. As a result, thousands of people have been forced from their homes.

Families have been forced to find shelter elsewhere. Some are staying in schools, community centers, or with host families. Thousands more are seeking shelter in displacement camps. With other families already living in displacement camps after Cyclone Freddy in 2023, there is a shortage of tents, tarpaulins, and household items.

We are responding to the flooding; working with people who have been affected by the flooding, and our partner CARE Malawi. We will be using aid already in Malawi after Cyclone Freddy.

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On September 10 2023 Storm Daniel brought flooding to the northeast coast of Libya. The city of Derna was particularly badly affected after two dams burst, releasing a torrent of water.

We’re partnering with ACTED to support people who have lost their homes and belongings to flood water, with a focus on items that will help keep families warm.

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A man stands under heavy rain due to Storm Daniel, which affected the city of Derna in Libya, in Deir Al Balah, Gaza on September 10, 2023. (Photo by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Due to drought and violence, hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in Somalia, searching for food, water and health services.

We’re working with the Juba Foundation to provide training and materials for the construction of locally appropriate shelters, as well as supplying essential items such as solar lights, water filters and mosquito nets.

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Severe monsoon flooding in Pakistan has left thousands of people with nowhere to live. The disaster has affected more than 33 million people and around 1 million houses have been damaged or destroyed.

We have partnered with Islamic Relief Pakistan to support thousands of people left with nowhere to live.

Aid includes tents, water filters and carriers, mosquito nets, and solar lights.

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In Syria, the need for humanitarian support is greater than ever. People are facing violent conflict, financial crisis and extreme weather.

We’ve been supporting families affected by the war in Syria since 2012.

Right now, at least 11 million people have fled their homes.

The need for emergency shelter supplies remains, as families are forced from their homes by renewed conflict, and existing shelters need repair after years of use.

There is still an exhausting level of upheaval for many and there is no clear path to peace.

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The conflict in northern Mozambique is driving one of the world’s fastest-growing displacement crises.

Since October 2017, an Islamic extremist group has been launching violent attacks on civilians in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

As of March 2024, over 780,000 people have left their homes. Of these, 80% are women and children

90% of people report shelter as their most urgent need, followed by food (88%).

With help from our partner CARE Mozambique, we are supporting vulnerable communities with shelter kits, solar lights, kitchen sets, sleeping mats, and mosquito nets.

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Since 2009, Boko Haram has been waging an insurgency in Northern Nigeria. The violence has since spread to the neighboring regions of Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

Around 9.7 million people are now in need of urgent humanitarian aid in the Lake Chad region.

In Nigeria, we have supported over 7,000 families with help from our partner ACTED. We have worked together to support communities with a type of shelter known locally as the Bama shelter, and other aid items including sleeping mats, blankets, and kitchen sets.

In Cameroon, we have supported over 18,000 families. We’re now working with our partner Public Concern to provide a range of emergency shelters and durable shelters, depending on people’s needs.

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Burkina Faso is one of the fastest-growing displacement crises in Africa.

Over 2 million people have been forced to flee their homes due to extremist violence. Efforts by both government forces and local militias to fight it have uprooted even more communities.

Together with our partner, HELP, we’ve supported over 4,000 families since 2020.

Recently, we have been providing aid items and emergency shelters known as Sahelian tents. These tents are constructed from locally sourced materials and offer a more durable structure for displaced families who have fled their homes to escape extremist violence.

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Yemen is currently the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

It is a result of the bitter civil war, starvation, and a failing economy.

We have partnered with BCHR (Benevolence Coalition for Humanitarian Relief) to support vulnerable communities as violence flares up again. Together we are providing tents, tarpaulins, water filters, soap, masks and other household items.

Aid distributions are now complete, but we’re planning another project to support more people.

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Millions of people have been forced to flee their homes due to violent conflict and drought in Ethiopia.

Working with our partner IOM, we’ve supported people with items like tarpaulins, rope, blankets, sleeping mats, mosquito nets, water carriers and kitchen sets.

We have supported a total of 22,000 people in the Afar and Somali regions in the last year. We are now working on another project to supply household items and cash assistance to a further 7,000 households.

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Our aid has arrived in Gaza

We have aid being distributed to people in Gaza. Items like tarpaulins, mattresses, water carriers and kitchen sets are being distributed by our partner Social Development Forum who are based in Gaza.

We have more aid on the move. Trucks filled with tents are joining the queue in Egypt, waiting to enter Gaza. And we have more tents being stored near Amman in Jordan.

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In February 2023 a series of powerful earthquakes devastated southern Türkiye and northern Syria. Thousands of buildings collapsed, leaving people homeless in the middle of a bitter winter.

For our response in Türkiye we provided emergency tents. These sheltered not only people who lost their homes, but also those whose homes were damaged or were afraid to sleep indoors due to aftershocks. We also provided items such as blankets, stoves and mattresses to help people keep warm during the cold winter months.

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We responded to the Ukraine crisis, helping more than 130,000 people affected by the war in Ukraine. We supported people displaced within Ukraine, as well as refugees who crossed the border into Moldova.

A great deal of our attention was on supporting people through the bitter winter months, by reaching people with essential items to help them survive.

People are living in damaged homes without heating or lighting. That’s why we provided thermal clothing, solar lights, water carriers and stoves with our partner, NNLPD.

We also worked with ReliefAid and Green Chernobyl to provide emergency shelter repair kits. These helped people fix damaged roofs, seal windows and doors, keep the heat in and make homes watertight.

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