TAMPA, Fla. — Florida nonprofits are still working to get aid to Jamaica just more than a week after Hurricane Melissa devastated the island.
“We’ve been going out, and we see the same thing everywhere,” said James Judge, a team leader with Project DYNAMO. “We’re the first people they’ve seen that have been with relief supplies. There’s starving people. Most of the structures don’t have roofs.”
Judge, a U.S. Coast Guard veteran, returned from Jamaica early Wednesday morning. He shared video with Spectrum News that he captured of members trekking through rural areas hit hard by the storm, offering medical help and supplies…