Fiji - Cyclone Evan
A ShelterBox Response Team
(SRT) - arrived in Fiji
following Cyclone Evan to assess the need for emergency shelter after the
biggest cyclone to strike the Pacific nation in two decades left western
parts of the main island of Viti Levu the hardest hit. Kiwi SRT members Owen
Smith and Ross McKenzie flew out as soon as the storm passed over
Fiji. Read more here.
Philippines Typhoon Bopha
Deadliest Storm
- The country’s emergency management
agency says Bopha is the strongest and deadliest storm to hit the Asian country
this year with over 800 people still missing and 1.2 million families
displaced.
ShelterBox is distributing
emergency shelter to the most vulnerable families and have been training
local workers and Rotaractors to help set up tents. Read more here.
Provided from the ShelterBox January Newsletter
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