<p> Rotary Club of Central Bucks Help Central Bucks Rotary Send Vital Supplies to Japan through Shelter Box</p><p>EVENT DETAILS</p><p>Central Bucks Rotary is holding a fundraiser on Tuesday, March 29th from 7pm – 10pm at the Oscar Martin Room upstairs at the Moose Lodge. Funds raised will go to Rotary efforts in Japan including ShelterBox. </p><p>The event is a great time to socialize and network with others in the community. Food will be provided by the Central Bucks Rotary, with entertainment by the local band “The Waltons”.</p><p>An example of the Shelter Box emergency shelter will be available at the event, as well as representatives from the Shelter Box organization.</p><p>Additionally, funds will be raised through some great silent auction items, including:</p><p> a property spring clean up and mulching performed by the CB Rotary team</p><p> $250 in Services from Burdick's Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning</p><p> custom designed facebook pages for your business from Social Marketing Sherpa</p><p> BKWG band performance at your house party</p><p> And much more!</p><p>A percentage of the proceeds from the cash bar will be donated.</p><p>** No registration is required to attend the event. Donations will be accepted at the door. **</p><p>Can't make it to the event, but want to donate? Go to http://bit.ly/hoRrSR to donate online!</p><p>Japanese authorities request ShelterBoxes for the north</p><p>The ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) operating in the country are working in 100 ShelterBoxes have been requested for cooperation with the British Embassy, each of the following five cities: Miyako, British military personnel and the US Yamadamachi, Kamaishi, Rikuzentakata and military to overcome the logistical Ofunato. challenges they are facing. </p><p>Local government authorities in Japan’s It is a seven-hour journey by road from Iwate Prefecture have requested 500 Tokyo to the Iwate Prefecture and with fuel ShelterBoxes to provide emergency shelter shortages, heavy snow, freezing and lifesaving supplies for families who lost temperatures and the ongoing nuclear their homes in last week’s tsunami. situation there are a range of obstacles to Rotary Club of Central Bucks overcome in order to ensure aid reaches ‘We have close to 1,000 ShelterBoxes either the families who need it most. in Japan or on their way and another 5,000 ready to move. The Japanese government is ‘Every disaster is different but this one is now focusing on getting assistance to the certainly posing a unique set of people sheltering in evacuation centres. circumstances for us to deal with,’ said SRT member and ShelterBox International ‘The freezing temperatures, damaged Director Lasse Petersen who has been in infrastructure and severe lack of fuel are all Japan since last Saturday. concerns but we are confident of overcoming these barriers and getting aid ‘We mobilised on day one because we knew to people who are in desperate need.’ there would be a need for the provision of emergency shelter. The specific needs The earthquake which struck Japan last request means we can now begin our week and triggered the subsequent tsunami distribution and we continue to be ready to was initially recorded as 8.9 in magnitude respond in whatever capacity is required but was later upgraded to 9.0. An from us.’ earthquake of this magnitude is, globally, a one in twenty year event. It caused a ShelterBox responds instantly to disasters sudden vertical motion of the seafloor, all around the world delivering aid as displacing a huge mass of seawater which quickly as possible to the people who need caused the tsunami to form. When the it most. tsunami reached Japan’s coast, the waves The latest reports from Japan say the were 10 to 15m high and traveling at official death toll is now 6,405 with speeds of around 500 km per hour. thousands more missing. Experts ShelterBox has spoken to say that, ‘In the Iwate Prefecture alone close to while it is impossible to predict 50,000 people are in temporary shelter, earthquakes, they cannot rule out the more the 10,000 are isolated and 4,000 are possibility of another earthquake above 8.0 missing,’ added ShelterBox Head of in magnitude striking off Japan’s east coast Operations John Leach. in the near future. Rotary Club of Central Bucks ABOUT SHELTER BOX</p><p>Founded in 2000 by a member of Rotary International, Shelter Box is a non-profit organization that responds immediately to the needs of homeless and displaced disaster victims with boxes containing large tents, food, water purification systems, and other basic necessities. Delivered on the ground by highly trained response teams, each Shelter Box can provide for approximately ten people in need for an extended period of time. For more information, please visit www.shelterbox.org</p><p>Each box costs $1,000, which includes all materials, packing, storage and distribution to individual recipients. ShelterBox Response Teams distribute boxes on the ground, working closely with local organizations, international aid agencies. </p><p>Each 110-pound ShelterBox supplies an extended family of up to 10 people with a tent and lifesaving equipment to use while they are displaced or homeless. The box contents are tailored depending on the nature and location of the disaster, and generally contain a tent, cooking stove, thermal blankets/mat/tarps, purification tablets, water containers, tools, ropes, dinner ware and children's school supplies and activity kits.</p><p>ABOUT CENTRAL BUCKS ROTARY</p><p>The Central Bucks Rotary is a new chapter of Rotary International, the world’s first service organization with over 1.2 million members across the globe. Club members enthusiastically embrace the Rotary motto of “Service Above Self,” and are fulfilled by directly helping charitable organizations, individuals and families in Central Bucks County as well as contributing to Rotary International’s humanitarian efforts around the world. </p><p>The Club meets at the Oscar Martin Room at the Moose Lodge in Doylestown, PA every Tuesday evening at 6:00 pm. People interested in joining the Central Bucks Rotary or volunteering for a Club event may contact Eric Lepping at [email protected].</p>