ShelterBox responding to flood-ravaged Pakistan
/PRNewswire/ --Global disaster relief organization ShelterBox USA announced today it is deploying an emergency team to Pakistan to respond to devastating flooding and determine what aid it will provide.
- "With roughly a third of the country underwater, the humanitarian need in Pakistan from this climate change-fuelled disaster is staggering and it will only grow," said ShelterBox USA President Kerri Murray.
- ShelterBox has responded to flooding in Pakistan previously, including a 2010 response that served thousands.
- Murray, ShelterBox CEO Sanj Srikanthan , and other ShelterBox staff available for interviews, including from Pakistan when they arrive.
- In April 2021, ShelterBox surpassed providing support to two million people since 2000, responding to more than 300 disasters in nearly 100 countries.