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690. Shelter Box heads on Route 66 to bring awareness to help real people in a real crisis to bring shelter.

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Release Date: 10/19/2025

699. Don Crost makes it to the end of Route 66 bringing awareness to ShelterBox'd relief to millions in desperate need. show art 699. Don Crost makes it to the end of Route 66 bringing awareness to ShelterBox'd relief to millions in desperate need.

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Don Crost set out from Evanston Illinois to California in his 1953 truck on Route 66. He did this to bring awareness to ShelterBox. ShelterBox is a global disaster relief organization that provides emergency shelter and essential household items to families displaced by natural disasters and conflict. It supplies items like tents, tarpaulins, and cooking equipment, and offers aid that is tailored to the specific needs of each community and disaster, such as tools for repairs or water filters. He is raising money for it's funding that sincerely helps people all over the world. Helping...

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 Making his way across the country on Route 66, Don Crost is bringing the importance of Shelter Box to the world. ShelterBoxes include family-size tents, though the contents differ depending on the disaster and climate. Many are packed with solar lights, water storage and purification equipment, thermal blankets, and cooking utensils. Depending on need, the organization may deliver ShelterKits, smaller aid packages that include tools, ropes, and heavy tarpaulins used to provide emergency shelter and repair damaged structures.  Don is raising money as well as awareness to helping...

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691. Route 66 and Healing with Shaman Don and ShelterBox show art 691. Route 66 and Healing with Shaman Don and ShelterBox

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The You Just Have to Laugh connects on Don Crost’s Route 66 journey to California – bringing awareness to ShelterBox. Rotary’s ShelterBox brings shelter and relief to those in serious need after a major catastrophe. YJHTL is dedicated in helping others. Picture (Don Crost and Bonnie Johnson) Link to donation - https://shelterboxusa.org/blog/2500-miles-for-25-years

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690. Shelter Box heads on Route 66 to bring awareness to help real people in a real crisis to bring shelter. show art 690. Shelter Box heads on Route 66 to bring awareness to help real people in a real crisis to bring shelter.

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Don Crost joins the YJHTL podcast to share the brilliance of the Rotary shelter box. The signature green boxes are adapted to fit the emergency before being transported on scant notice. Most boxes include family-size tents, though the contents differ depending on the disaster and climate. Many are packed with solar lights, water storage and purification equipment, thermal blankets, and cooking utensils. Depending on need, the organization may deliver ShelterKits, smaller aid packages that include tools, ropes, and heavy tarpaulins used to provide emergency shelter and repair damaged...

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Don Crost joins the YJHTL podcast to share the brilliance of the Rotary shelter box. The signature green boxes are adapted to fit the emergency before being transported on scant notice. Most boxes include family-size tents, though the contents differ depending on the disaster and climate. Many are packed with solar lights, water storage and purification equipment, thermal blankets, and cooking utensils. Depending on need, the organization may deliver ShelterKits, smaller aid packages that include tools, ropes, and heavy tarpaulins used to provide emergency shelter and repair damaged structures. 

Don is journeying from Evanston, Illinois on to Route 66 to Los Angeles. He is doing this to bring awareness the massive shelterbox brings to those in neeed. 

 

direct ShelterBox donation and link:

https://shelterboxusa.org/blog/2500-miles-for-25-years