TSUNAMI DISASTER

 

The dreadful news reports about the tsunami touched people all over the world.  The villagers of St Tudy were no exception so on Saturday 1st January 2005 a Coffee Morning was organised by Sue & John Dibble helped by their friends, Jane King, Lady Le Bailly, Margaret & Godfrey Bevan and Rev. Margaret Millson.  At 10 am the doors of The Clink were opened and for the next two hours the people kept coming; the number of raffle prizes grew & grew and unwanted Christmas gifts were brought for the Bring & Buy.  At the end of an exhausting 2 hours the total raised was counted and to our amazement the final total was a magnificent £2310.00.

 

Thank you St Tudy.

Tuesday 4th January 2005 – handing over cheques totalling £2,310 to Rachel Kernow at the headquarters of  The ShelterBox Trust in Helston.                                                                

 

We were then shown around the building where 300 boxes were waiting to be sent to Heathrow today

The picture above shows one of the sleeping compartments with sleeping bags

 

This picture gives you an idea of the size of the tents supplied and below shows the rest of the box contents.

 

 Every 10th box contains a wind-up radio, they are not put in every one as to make room one sleeping bag has to be omitted.

Sue with Tom Henderson, the brains behind this organisation. The map on the wall shows the areas where ShelterBox have sent aid since their launch in April 2000.

This particular disaster has used 12 months supplies in under 2 weeks.