VOLUNTEER Liz Odell has flown to Brazil on her second mission with disasters emergency charity ShelterBox.

Businesswoman Liz, 51, left her home in North Woodchester on Saturday to spend three weeks helping to distribute aid boxes to people who are homeless following devastating floods in the Alagoas and Pernambuco regions.

Liz, a financial advisor, will be helping to distribute ShelterBoxes, which each aim to supply an extended family with a tent and lifesaving equipment to use while they are homeless or displaced.

There are blankets, cooking equipment, tools, water carriers and a children's pack in each box, which costs £490 including delivery.

"Seventy two people have died and 157,000 people have been made homeless," said Liz. .

"It is vital that those people get help and we find suitable locations to set up camps.

"So far 600 ShelterBoxes have been sent but there are another 460 to follow."

In February this year Liz travelled to Haiti to help with the huge aid effort after the disastrous earthquake and in 2008 she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with seven other people from Nailsworth Rotary Club and raised more than £3,000 for ShelterBox.

For up-to-date information on the project in Brazil visit www.shelterbox.org/news