As the Caribbean braces for the impact of Hurricane Melissa, communities across South Florida are answering the call for help, collecting donations and preparing shipments for those in Jamaica and surrounding islands expected to be hardest hit.
At Global Empowerment Mission in Doral, volunteers are already hard at work. The organization will serve as the main hub where supplies gathered across South Florida will be packed, palletized, and shipped to Jamaica as soon as it’s safe to do so.
Jamaicans in South Florida worry over family
“It is more than kind of distressing because you don’t know when and you don’t know how,” said Ewan Simpson, who lives in Jamaica.
Simpson was only supposed to be in South Florida for the weekend. Now, he fears losing communication with his children and close family once the storm hits…