Meals For The Poor (FFTP) is assessing wants and responding with emergency aid provides in Jamaica to assist households affected by Hurricane Beryl, which blew off roofs, knocked out energy and battered the nation with intense wind and rain on Wednesday.
Within the days earlier than Beryl approached, FFTP-Jamaica prepositioned meals objects in areas that may very well be reduce off throughout a storm.
Important support able to be deployed contains:
- • Catastrophe preparedness kits for 500 households
- • 16 containers of meals
- • Six containers of healthcare provides
- • 5 containers of different important objects
- • A water filter unit from companion Water Mission with the capability to filter as much as 10,000 gallons of water per day
“Our distribution community in Jamaica goes out to greater than 30 finish factors, that are sometimes church buildings,” mentioned FFTP President/CEO Ed Raine. “We’ve got a really massive community to distribute support.”
FFTP is also assessing wants within the islands of the southeast Caribbean that have been devastated by Beryl on Monday.
The charity prepositioned catastrophe preparedness kits in St. Lucia, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago to empower native response, with every package containing provides for no less than 250 households. Many of those nations are supporting one another by the community companion Caritas Antilles.
Money donations are inspired to expedite supply of support and to make in-country purchases and help FFTP companions with grants. Help FFTP’s response at foodforthepoor.org/hurricaneberyl
