about
Shelter Centre is an NGO supporting communities impacted by conflicts and natural disasters by serving collaboration and consensus in humanitarian transitional settlement and reconstruction response.
^ foundation and structure
Shelter Centre was founded by Tom Corsellis, who co-founded the informal University of Cambridge shelterproject group, and Antonella Vitale, who worked with shelterproject to develop the 'Transitional Settlement - Displaced Populations' guidelines published by Oxfam Publishing in May 2005.
The work of Shelter Centre has been supported by volunteers from humanitarian initiatives associated with the University of Cambridge, including Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and Architectes Sans Frontières (ASF).
Shelter Centre is registered in England as a not-for-profit limited company. Its Memorandum of Association describes the Objects of the Company as:
"the research, development, dissemination and operational implementation of humanitarian settlement and shelter policy, best practice, equipment and field programmes, namely working independently of, in collaboration with, or consultant to other humanitarian organisations and research institutions in research, emergency and developmental contexts and the doing of all such other things which, in the opinion of the Directors, are incidental or conducive to the attainment of these Objects."
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