LITTLE ROCK, Ark.— A Beebe man and his nephew are taking the Arkansas spirit overseas to help those devastated by Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 storm earlier this week.
Clint Roe, a longtime volunteer with Ground Force Humanitarian Aid, says the group specializes in disaster response and recovery efforts. This mission marks their first international deployment.
“What we are doing right now is I got a phone call about two days ago that said, ‘Hey, we are going to go to Jamaica,’ and I said, ‘Okay, let’s go,’ and so here I am,” Roe said. “I left Little Rock, I’m in Lafayette, we are loading a storage container with our supplies and things that we are going to use in Jamaica once we arrive there.”
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Roe says the small team plans to set up a base camp in some of the hardest-hit areas. The camp will provide hot meals, distribute supplies, and serve as a hub for other nonprofit organizations working in the region…