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Tiburon woman helps deliver shelter, hope

Tiburon resident Kerri Murray, president of ShelterBox, is seen in the Atlas mountains of Morocco during a ShelterBox aid mission. (via Kerri Murray)
Tiburon resident Kerri Murray, president of ShelterBox, is seen in the Atlas mountains of Morocco during a ShelterBox aid mission. (via Kerri Murray)

As Myanmar reels from a devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck last March 28, one Tiburon resident is at the forefront of the international response.

 

“We’re working to find the most vulnerable people on the planet,” said Kerri Murray, president of ShelterBox, a global disaster relief nonprofit that provides emergency shelter, tools and household supplies to displaced families after disaster.

 

In Myanmar, where more than 3,000 people have been killed, hundreds are still missing, and 3 million more have been displaced and are without shelter, according to NPR. ShelterBox volunteers cannot enter Myanmar directly because of continuing instability from the civil war that erupted after a 2021 military coup. The organization deployed a five-person Emergency Response Team to Bangkok.


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