# Rotary GB and Ireland raises £5 million for Asian tsunami disaster

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/01/13/rotary-gb-and-ireland-raises-5-million-asian-tsunami-disaster/
- Published: 2005-01-13T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Funds raised by Rotary Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland for the south Asian disaster
survivors have reached £5 million.
Funds raised have been used immediately for Shelterboxes,
Aquaboxes and Emergency boxes, in direct response to requests from Rotary Clubs 
in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India. More than three thousand Aquaboxes and over eleven
hundred Shelterboxes have been shipped to India and Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the
Maldives in the last two weeks to provide temporary homes and clean water for 20,000
victims of the Asian Tsunami.

Rotary has delivered its aid quickly because it works through its volunteer service
club network at the grassroots level: Rotary has hundreds of clubs and thousands
of members in the affected countries.

Hundreds of Rotary Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland have held collections in shopping
centres, at motorway service stations and at sports stadiums. In Devon alone more
than £300,000 has been raised.

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