Dealing in Despair

On August 11, box #51722 was shipped :

To aid those made homeless by the devastating floods in the Punjab area of north east Pakistan.

We have a 140 pound share in this box. Roughly $200.00.

Juan Cole: The media’s failure to cover “the great Pakistani deluge” is “itself a security threat” to America
Time magazine removes its Pakistan story -- titled "Through Hell And High Water" (!) -- from the cover of its U.S. edition

Deployments at Last

Looks like Boxes #49952 & #49953 went to Chile. Here's the story about this deployment :
1,000 ShelterBoxes en route to Chile


Our box page at Shelter Box.

3 Months Since the Fault Slipped

It seems we got a shout out from Cornwall today.

Blog readers send 950 ShelterBoxes to help disaster survivors

An obscure blog has kick-started a massive fundraising campaign that resulted in donations of almost £50,000 for international disaster relief charity, ShelterBox.

Today is the 3 month mark, since the fault slipped. Here's today's report from ShelterBox :

ShelterBox has now delivered over 13,000 ShelterBoxes to families who lost everything in the 7.3-magnitude quake, with each box containing a disaster relief tent to house a family of up to 10 and other items essential for survival.

As the world marks the three-month anniversary of the disaster, ShelterBox is preparing to send another 5,000 boxes of aid – enough for a further 50,000 people – with thousands more ShelterBoxes due to arrive in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, during the coming months.

Read more

Got an Email

Subject: Website Article

Hi Colorado Bob,

First off on behalf of ShelterBox let me thank you and all your
friends who have donated so generously. Raising almost £50,000 and
bringing shelter to almost 1,000 people is an amazing achievement.

We were hoping to put up an article on our website about your
efforts. I wanted to ask you a few questions about how the whole
idea started? What your expectations were? How surprised have been
by the response?

If this is something you are interested in please get back to me.
Thank you again for all your help.

Best regards,

Ed Kiernan
ShelterBox Volunteer

The Box Numbers

Feb. 1st

#46276 - £28.90

Feb. 2nd

#46594 - £490.00
#46595 - £490.00
#46715 - £ 30.03
#46716 - £ 62.17

Feb. 9th

#48530 - £490.00
#48531 - £490.00
#48532 - £490.00
#48533 - £490.00
#48534 - £490.00
#48535 - £490.00
#48536 - £490.00
#48537 - £490.00
#48538 - £490.00
#48539 - £490.00
#48540 - £490.00
#48541 - £490.00
#48542 - £490.00
#48543 - £490.00
#48544 - £490.00
#48545 - £490.00
#48546 - £490.00
#48547 - £490.00
#48548 - £490.00
#48549 - £490.00
#48550 - £490.00
#48551 - £490.00
#48552 - £490.00
#48553 - £490.00
#48554 - £490.00
#48555 - £490.00
#48556 - £490.00
#48557 - £490.00
#48558 - £490.00
#48559 - £490.00
#48560 - £490.00
#48561 - £490.00
#48562 - £490.00
#48563 - £490.00
#48564 - £490.00
#48565 - £490.00
#48566 - £490.00
#48567 - £490.00
#48568 - £490.00
#48569 - £490.00
#48570 - £490.00
#48571 - £490.00
#48572 - £490.00
#48573 - £490.00
#48574 - £490.00
#48575 - £490.00
#48576 - £490.00
#48577 - £490.00
#48578 - £490.00
#48579 - £490.00
#48580 - £490.00
#48581 - £490.00
#48582 - £490.00
#48583 - £490.00
#48584 - £490.00
#48585 - £490.00
#48586 - £490.00
#48587 - £490.00
#48588 - £490.00
#48589 - £490.00
#48590 - £490.00
#48591 - £490.00
#48592 - £490.00
#48593 - £490.00
#48594 - £490.00
#48595 - £490.00
#48596 - £490.00
#48597 - £490.00
#48598 - £490.00
#48599 - £490.00
#48600 - £490.00
#48601 - £490.00
#48602 - £490.00
#48603 - £490.00
#48604 - £490.00
#48605 - £490.00
#48606 - £490.00
#48607 - £490.00
#48608 - £490.00
#48609 - £490.00
#48611 - £490.00
#48612 - £490.00
#48613 - £490.00
#48614 - £490.00
#48615 - £490.00
#48616 - £490.00
#48617 - £490.00
#48632 - £ 68.73
#48633 - £212.80

Feb. 16

#49402 - £490.00
#49403 - £490.00
#49404 - £490.00
#49405 - £490.00
#49406 - £490.00
#49515 - £295.31
#49516 - £131.93

Feb. 23

#49579 - £490.00
#49580 - £490.00
#49713 - £289.10

March 2

#49952 - £162.34
#49953 - £289.96

March 9

#50691 - £182.30
#50692 - £ 12.00

March 30
#51722 - £ 140.00

ShelterBox Tracker

Gerry the Piano Man

The other people, and groups of people in our first box. I say groups , because the Stratford Upon Avon group has a huge list of boxes , going back 4 years.



We have a 28.90 British Pound share of this box , I trust the other people in our box won't mind if we name it Gerry the Piano Man in honor of a friend of ours . For Renee's father, box #46276.

So here we are , Owen, Evelyn, Olivia, the people from Stratford Upon Avon, and us Fish Campers.
All sitting on a shelf in Cornwall, waiting to go somewhere that is in need of help.

Sixty Days Later

Box 99 -
Last Tuesday was the 60th day for this little experiment. Several things have happened since then.
First we are here as of tonight.
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £49,425.47 9885 %
We are £75 away from finishing box #99.

I never did this sort of thing before, and we sorta made it up as we went along. Now, I get receipts from Cornwall, for our boxes. As I understand this JustGiving has been making a weekly
deposit to ShelterBox. These started on the 1st of Febuary.
Our first box the one with the piano man in it, was -

Feb. 1st
#46276 - £28.90

Feb. 2nd

#46594 - £490.00
#46595 - £490.00
#46715 - £ 30.03
#46716 - £ 62.17
Looks like our money is going to end up in a lot more boxes than I figured.

Here is the Box Tracker feature at ShelterBox.

The last 4 boxes have not shown up there yet. But #46276 showed up there last Friday.
The Boxes that have a £490 next to them are ours completely.
The mail should bring in a wave of numbers soon. When some more get here, I'll start a map feature to track by.