About us
We provide emergency shelter to people who have lost their home to disaster, enabling them to rebuild their lives.
Across Canada, campgrounds and outdoor retailers have a unique opportunity to make a global impact. Camping for a Cause invites businesses in the outdoor community to partner with ShelterBox Canada and help provide life‑saving shelter to people displaced by disaster and conflict.
Right now, millions of people around the world have lost their homes due to disasters caused by extreme weather or seismic events, and ongoing conflicts or crises. ShelterBox works directly with affected communities to deliver emergency shelter, essential supplies, and tools that enable families to begin rebuilding their lives with dignity and hope.
Through Camping for a Cause, participating partners can give back in simple, meaningful ways, whether by donating a portion of campsite bookings or product sales, or by offering customers the option to round up their purchase at checkout.
Every contribution helps provide humanitarian aid such as durable tents, tarpaulins, tools, solar lights, kitchen sets, and other essential household items that create the foundation for recovery. The same types of items that your customers might purchase or bring!
By joining this program, your business becomes part of a compassionate network dedicated to ensuring no one is left without shelter after disaster.
Together, we can transform everyday outdoor experiences into powerful moments of impact, and help families around the world find safety, stability, and a place to call home.
Sign up todayHow the program works
Sign up for the program
Join Camping for a Cause by completing our contact form. A member of our team will reach out to learn more about your business and how we can best support you.
Join nowChoose your way to support
Your business can choose to donate a portion of sales or bookings, offer a round-up option at checkout, display a box for cash donations, or other way that works for you.
Make an impact while driving sales
We will feature your business on our website and in our newsletter that goes out to over 6000 people. You will also receive a quarterly impact report that highlights the impact your support makes around the world.
A man from the Philippines holding his new solar light.
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Why social responsibility matters
Today’s customers are looking beyond products and services. They choose businesses that stand for something.
By joining Camping for a Cause, you will deliver emergency shelter and the essential supplies that help people survive after disaster or crisis. Thousands of families are forced from their homes every day by disasters, wars, and conflicts, but you and your customers can help make a difference.
Here are some of the ways you benefit by standing for a social cause:
- Inspire new customers and build loyalty and retention,
- Strengthen brand reputation by demonstrating social responsibility,
- Increase engagement and boost sales,
- Motivate staff and improve morale and job satisfaction,
- Stand out in a competitive market.
Not only will you be helping ensure no one is left without shelter, but participating can help you gain customers and increase sales.
87% of consumers said they would be willing to buy a product or service based on a company’s advocacy concerning a social matter. – Forbes
Nurgül’s home was destroyed in the earthquake that struck Türkiye. With a tent they received other items, including a solar light that gave comfort when the electricity went out.
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Your Impact
On the night of the earthquake in Türkiye, Nurgül had gone to bed late because she had been cooking for her family.
“Eventually I went to bed, and then I woke up to this thing – a very bad noise. We were being hurled from left and right. I shouted out to my husband. I said ‘run, it’s an earthquake’ and we came out as the house were falling on us.”
Nurgül and Iman’s house completely collapsed in the earthquake. Once they were outside they found the streets filled with people who had also lost their homes.
After the earthquake, Nurgül lived in a temporary tent settlement with her husband. It is here that she received a tent from ShelterBox, along with other household items such as a solar light, blankets, and cooking set.
Nurgül rejoiced: “To receive a tent with other furnishings, makes me feel so fortunate. I am really pleased with the solar lamp. The electricity goes very often at night, so I put it next to me for when the electricity goes, and I can carry it with me.”
This is the impact that your support can make on people after disaster. Your compassion and generosity can help provide not only safety and security, but also the simple joys that life has to offer.
When I get in my tent and zip it up, I feel relieved. When there is no tent, the coffee I drink is not coffee. But here, in my tent, my coffee tastes like coffee.
Join Camping for a Cause today!
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