ShelterBox's Tom Henderson Receives Beacon Fellowship Award

Beacon is a charitable organisation set up to encourage individual contributions to charitable and social causes and to celebrate and showcase best practice in giving. Beacon awards annual prizes to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to charitable causes or to organisations that benefit the public.
In 2008 Tom Henderson was awarded the prize for New Initiatives for setting up ShelterBox. Tom Henderson set up ShelterBox Trust to provide humanitarian aid worldwide in the form of shelter, warmth, dignity and comfort for people displaced by natural and other disasters. Tom Henderson & ShelterBox have helped an estimated 700,000-plus people in over 50 countries, responding to more than 67 different emergencies.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• shelterbox
• disaster
• relief
• humanitarian
• tsunami
• tom
• henderson
• beacon
• cornwall
• helston

[PurdyBear1]

Hey Tom, we need one of these for animals tooo!  Maybe a dogpod or cat pod etc!

[luisalane79]

thanks tom for helping mankind.