A SPECIAL collection will be made at tomorrow?s Dickensian Evening in Tavistock for the Shelterbox Appeal to help survivors of the cyclone in Bangladesh. Tavistock Rotary Club, which has donated 68 Shelterboxes to disasters worldwide since 2003, will be collecting on the streets with Father Christmas throughout the evening. The club will be fundraising over the festive period for various local charities, but its aim at the Dickensian event is to collect enough money to buy one shelterbox at the cost of £490. Almost three weeks after Bangladesh was hit by a devastating cyclone, aid workers are still struggling to help the survivors of the ferocious storm. Among those in the frontline of efforts to assist the cyclone victims are a team of volunteers from Shelterbox, the south west disaster relief organisation, which specialises in providing emergency accommodation and other survival essentials to victims. So far the charity has sent supplies to more than 6,000 people, but said tens of thousands of people were still living out in the open with limited food or clean water. The Tavistock club is one of the Rotary?s largest benefactors of Shelterboxes to date.
