More ShelterBoxes Sent to Sri Lanka

An additional 200 ShelterBoxes are being sent to Sri Lanka to give emergency shelter to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who were forced to leave their homes by the recent fighting in the country.
The aid – due to have arrived in the country on 21 June – will be sent to Menik Farm (Zone 3) in the Vanni region where ShelterBox has already distributed 448 ShelterBoxes. “There is still a great need for emergency shelter in the country,” says SRT member Laura Jepson who returned from the country on 12 June.
“Although the fighting has now ended, it will be many months before most of the IDPs will be able to go back to their homes. The conditions in the camps are very poor. They are very overcrowded.”
ShelterBox is working in Sri Lanka with local Rotarians, Habitat for Humanity, the International Organisation for Migration and the United Nations. The latest batch of aid will be distributed by ShelterBox Response Team members Tom Chambers (UK), Sallie Buck (UK) and John Cordell (US).

Read about more ShelterBox projects: www.shelterbox.org/news_index

Wallabies Hop to Help Mowing Lawns

Hate to mow the lawn? Can’t decide to cut the grass on an angle or in a square? Tired of begging your teenager to mow? Want to cut the expense of a lawn service? NBC’s Kiko Itsaka reports on a new trend in the British countryside that’s bound to help.

Teen Makes 100-Mile Wheelchair Trek

A 14-year old Michigan boy named Gene Fletcher has completed a 100-mile wheelchair journey from Rapid River to Bay Cliff. He raised more than $20,000 for the Bay Cliff Health Camp, a nonprofit therapy and wellness center on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for children and adults with physical disabilities.

Read more on Fletcher’s website: www.trektobaycliff.com/

Baby Delivered in Car During Storm

Perth, Australia

A gas station attendant in Australia named Helen Roughley helped deliver a baby after a woman went into labor in her car. Her husband and two children were also present to witness the birth. MSNBC’s Dara Brown reports.