International

Anstruther Rotary club is a long standing supporter of Shelterboxes and has been made a 'Silver Shelter Box Partner' after donating another £4000 in the year 2022/23

These are the ingenious and precious boxes that contain a tent, bedding, a stove, cooking pots, water purification equipment and even a knitted Teddy - enough to sustain a family when disaster strikes.  They are in use around the world. The boxes relieve suffering and save lives. 

There are now almost 60 million people around the world forced from their homes due to natural disasters or conflict, the greatest number since WW2. ShelterBox is a UK charity, and a world authority on providing innovative, rapid and practical shelter to families in some of the worlds’ hardest-to-reach places and most devastated disaster zones. Since founding in 2000 it’s helped more than one million people worldwide rebuild their lives and it now has affiliate ShelterBox operations across Europe, Africa, Americas and Asia.

Anstruther Rotary Club members work to help promote world understanding and peace through world community service and friendship programmes especially to:

• support humanitarian programmes of Rotary International for Water, Sanitation, Health, Poverty and Literacy.

• respond to disaster relief efforts and to rebuilding work following natural disasters.

• build and sustain international friendship and service through the Rotary Fellowships and Rotarian Action Groups.

Our club actively supports a number of programmes (click on the underlined links for more information).  We regularly provide Shelterboxes, Aquaboxes, and Lifestraws.

“When Rotarians are confronted with problems too large to contemplate, they start small and keep going ……… build bridges that last”