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What would you need to survive if your home was destroyed? Remember, it’s not the kinds of things you’d want (like your mp3 player or video games), but what you’d need that is so important.
That is the question ShelterBox founder Tom Henderson asked himself in 1998. Tom Henderson lives in Cornwall of the United Kingdom. One evening, he was watching news reports on television about a disaster in another part of the world. The news showed desperate people who had no food, water or place to live as they surrounded a relief truck. As workers threw loaves of bread from the back of a truck, they scrambled to catch them. That image struck Tom Henderson and stayed in his mind.
Tom Henderson drew up a box – a ShelterBox – that would contain a tent large enough for an entire family, blankets, a water purification system, a cooking stove and pots, pans and dishes, and a toolkit. He wanted his box to be portable enough so that two people could carry it across any type of terrain. Since that one idea, ShelterBox has delivered enough emergency shelter for more than 100,000 families worldwide!
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