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Lions Sweden, MD101, has been collaborating since 2004 with the Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency (MCF), which is tasked with disasters by the EU's civil defence mechanism ERCC. Lions Sweden buys containers with family tents, blankets and gathering tents which are stored in MCFs depot in Kristinehamn. When Sweden receives a request for help in disaster and crisis situations from the UN or the EU, MCF, which carries out the mission for ERCC, can give people in need a roof over their heads thanks to the tents. When the tents are delivered, Swedish Lions representatives can accompany them. Lion's own representatives are recruited by the Tent Team and approved and trained by MCF, (see below). Bring Quality to Life is the most internationally known activity run by Lions Sweden. LCIF contributes with every purchase.
In consultation with MCF, we have come up with a suitable tent that is delivered with five blankets/tents along with larger gathering tents in a container that the recipient gets to keep. One container contains 94 family tents, 470 blankets and three larger gathering tents. Depending on logistical issues, tents may be shipped palletized.
Since 2005, approx. 8,000 tents and roughly 45,000 blankets have been sent around the world to various disaster areas, providing help to approx. 75,000 people. The first efforts were to Pakistan in the fall of 2005 and spring of 2006, when Lions together with the then Swedish Rescue Service Agencies (SRSA) were on the ground after a strong earthquake. Lions in Pakistan also participated in that work. Lion's strength is that there are clubs in over 200 countries and can therefore help locally. Tents have been delivered to 18 countries in Africa, Asia, South America, Central America and Europe.
In stock at MFC in Kristinehamn there are approx. 2,000 tents and 10,000 blankets in 20 containers. The total value is SEK 72 million. The purchase was made before MCF changed its name on January 1, 2026, so the old MSB logo remains on both containers and tents. Future purchases will have the new logo on containers and tents.
On December 26, 2003, the province of Kerman in Iran was hit by a strong earthquake with the epicentre near the city of Bam. What the people there needed was at least temporary housing. Sweden's Lions Disaster Preparedness decided to donate SEK 500,000 for the purchase of tents for the people in Bam. Now a problem arose and that was how to get tents to Bam in Iran? With the help of another aid organization, MD101 managed to get the tents in place. However, there was a catch and that was that the organization took 5% in administration fee. This annoyed the chairman of Disaster Preparedness, CC Finn Bangsgaard. He began to think about whether there were other possibilities and then came to think of the Swedish Rescue Service Agencies (SRSA), today MCF, which is the organization that the state and the EU give the task of implementing Swedish aid in connection with disasters.
CC Finn Bangsgaard, LC Svansjö, and PDG Reino Wikström, LC Råda-Mölnlycke, went in January 2004 to NSR in Norway and came in the car to talk about emergency aid and costs and how to make it all more efficient. Could the Lions buy the tents themselves? Could they be stored somewhere? Reino Wikström had contacts within the former Swedish Rescue Services Agency (SRSA) and could ask if they were interested in tents. SRSA replied that there was a need, and they could be responsible for the storage. At the national meeting in Gävle in 2004, the first Lions tent was presented, and the Lions made their first major purchase of 75 tents. So, an idea, from two Lions members, with the help of an aid organization, Lions, and a government authority, SRSA, was implemented within 5 months
In February 2005, the first Lions member, Lina Eiserman Ålund, LC Råda-Mölnlycke, attended the SRSA’s training for international missions. In October, the first tents were sent to Pakistan after the country's massive earthquake. SRSA, with Lina Eiserman Ålund in the squad arrived three days after the earthquake and the first tent camp for about 1350 people was built three days later in Muzaffarabad, northern Pakistan.
Since then, several Lions members have been accepted by MCF from all over the country. We currently have eleven representatives, three of whom are women. Lions and MCF conducted joint training for Lions Representatives at Rosersberg at the beginning of June 2022. Several Lions representatives participated in the MCF Shelter Training in Kristinehamn in 2025, where RescEU also had several participants from other countries in Europe.
On January 1, 2026, the authority changed its name to the Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency (MCF).
2026 Mozambique, 280 family tents and 9 gathering tents
2005: 225 winter tents to Pakistan, earthquake
2006: 40 summer tents to Serbia, flooding
2006: 140 desert tents, 150 summer tents, 1 civil defence medical tent to Lebanon, refugees
2007: 140 tropical tents to Sri Lanka, tsunami victims
2007: 93 winter tents to Peru, earthquake
2008: 90 winter tents, 900 blankets to Kyrgyzstan, earthquake
2008: 144 tropical tents to Burma, typhoon
2008: 1079 summer tents, 149 desert tents, 56 tropical tents to China, earthquake
2010: 395 summer tents to Haiti, earthquake 2011: 300 summer tents to Tunisia, refugees Libya
2011: 470 tents to Türkiye, earthquake
2013: 30 tents to the Philippines, typhoon
2014: 1025 tents to Iraq, refugees
2016: 7 tents to Sri Lanka, medical team
2016: 150 tents to Greece
2019: 498 tents to Albania, earthquake
2020: 250 tents to Lesbos, Greece, fire disaster
2021: 200 tents to Haiti, earthquake
2022: 300 tents to Pakistan, flood
2023: 300 tents to Türkiye, earthquake
2024: 424 tents to Mayotte, cyclone
2025: 194 tents to Myanmar, earthquake
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View from a drone in Turkey.
Delivery of Lions tents to Pakistan 2022.
Lions Sweden's tents in Haiti after the earthquake.
Coming soon.
The Tent Team consists of
Reino Wikström, LC Mölndal, chairman
Per Blomstrand, LC Uddevalla, PR
Björn Åström, LC Kristinehamn, equipment manager
Finn Bangsgaard, LC Svansjö, authority contact, LCIF
Lina Eiserman Ålund, LC Mölndal, PR, recruitment manager, team leader the representatives
Annette Eiserman-Wikström, LC Mölndal, customs, VAT and forwarding
Contact: bringquality@lions.se
