Shelterboxes needed in the Phillippines

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Dear friends and neighbours,

being practical after the typhoon please remember the excellent Shelterbox scheme which is ready for disaster relief with everything a family needs to survive, including in one crate a large tent, bedding, cooking equipment.

see 1-minute video => http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24948428

Here's one page of their on line shop, read more about the work this charity does by following the links.

http://www.shelterboxshop.org.uk/products?page=3

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Here is a link to DEC, the Disasters Emergency Committee, which is an umbrella organisation for many UK charities which collects on behalf of all of them in times of crisis. It represents organisation such as The British Red Cross, Save the Children, Oxfam, to name but a few.

http://www.dec.org.uk/

So many families are utterly devastated and it's hard to look at the pictures and the news reports and see so many displaced children. The human loss is great but the survivors need food and shelter and clean water so please give something. It's easy to give on the link above and you can gift-aid it so the charity gets the tax back.