Stock the Box | Emergency Shelter Preparedness Campaign | ShelterBox USA

When disasters strike without warning, access to shelter can mean the difference between life and death.

That’s why ShelterBox focuses on preparedness—pre-positioning aid, training response teams, and working with trusted local partners. Readiness allows us to reach families faster, more effectively, and in some of the hardest-to-reach places in the world.

In the past year, ShelterBox supported over 270,000 people across 17 countries—from Cameroon to Bangladesh, the United States to Gaza. We delivered tents, solar lights, water filters, and essential supplies to help families begin to recover.

Now, we need your help to Stock the Box—so we’re ready when the next disaster strikes.

In Gaza, where nearly 90% of the population has been displaced, ShelterBox has been working with local partners to deliver hundreds of emergency tents to families who have lost everything.

Families like Kamel’s, who fled their home under direct threat and now live in a displacement camp, where conditions remain dangerous and uncertain.

With your support, ShelterBox was ready. But to respond to the next crisis, we need your help to Stock the Box again.

Your donation fuels preparedness—and that readiness saves lives.

Since October 2023, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has escalated to unimaginable levels. Over 1.9 million people—nearly 90% of the population—have been forced from their homes. Entire neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble, and more than 80% of homes have been damaged or destroyed. Borders open one day and are closed the next. Aid convoys have been diverted, delayed, or attacked.

But thanks to your support, ShelterBox has been able to respond—despite the immense challenges.

Working with trusted partners like PARC (the Agricultural Development Association) and drawing on prepositioned aid, we’ve delivered hundreds of tents into northern Gaza—providing urgent shelter for families with nowhere else to turn.

Kamel’s family fled their home in Gaza under direct threat, evacuating with only what they could carry. They now live in a displacement camp, where danger still lurks daily.

“Planes are flying overhead, and the whole world knows we are in danger. Where are we supposed to go?”

Like so many others, Kamel never wanted to leave her home. “They dropped leaflets telling us to evacuate. Then the rockets started. I carried the children and ran. If we hadn’t held onto each other, we would’ve been separated in the chaos. The whole world was displaced.”

Now, the family struggles to survive amid extreme conditions. “We’re living in hardship, thirst, and suffering. My son was injured in a shelling just outside the camp. Thank God he was released from the hospital.”

Even with everything she’s faced, Kamel is deeply grateful for the shelter her family has received.

“This tent definitely came from God. Without it, we would have been sitting in the sun and on the street. It’s not just shelter—it’s dignity, it’s safety, it’s the chance to breathe again.”

Now, we need your help to restock our warehouses so we can provide more communities like Kamel’s with life-saving aid when the next disaster strikes.

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