Helping Rebuild after Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa left a trail of destruction in Jamaica. As the island is a popular holiday destination, the news was readily reported in the press and on social media.
However, interest in the storm faded just as quickly as it swept across the island.
The situation in Jamaica is quite different. Many people are still without drinking water, electricity, communication, and access roads are often still uncleared. Rural communities have seen little of the aid deliveries.
We, The Rastafari Nation Switzerland (actually the R.U.N. Rastafari United Nation), speak on behalf of the Rastafari communities in Jamaica, specifically in Portland, Mama Fayah Family Rastafari Center and wish to draw the attention of the Swiss government, the Swiss population, and local companies to the fact that neither the rural population nor the indigenous people have yet benefited from the aid and are urgently in need of further support.
Furthermore, we would like to emphasize that this storm, in its magnitude, was partly caused by our way of life, and we cannot forget it. We must take a stand and find a way to learn how to deal with such situations properly, as the grassroot people will continue to suffer from climate change in the future, more than anyone else!
As a Rastafari community, we support our brothers and sisters on the ground through direct exchange, but we would like to bring out that Jamaica needs all the help it can get right now, and we urge the government, businesses, and every individual to take action. This is done out of love for our neighbours, but also out of the awareness that we owe this to the people there. We willing to engage with all the Grassroots and Indigenous Sovereign People to ensure certain victory over this attack of their way of Life.
Collect information about the families and isolated people in need of a quick help and inform Jamaican organizations (EWF, Rastafari Global reasoning / Rastafari Melissa disaster mapping )
Send donation to a trusted and direct contact via also this gofundme.com.
Raise awareness in your community!
This is our project:
- Hurricane mapping
Collecting disaster informations about the members of The Rastafari Communities in need. Visit them with food, medicine, money and every materials they need to rebuild as fast as possible.
- Rebuild the different RastaFari Centers (Man Quarters, Woman Quarters, Bathrooms, Toilets, Tabernacles, Clean up Trees)
- Cleaning and Planting Agricultural land of the Rastafari Communities gardens, that has been destroyed. FOOD SECURITY IS A MUST ! Prices Jumped very High from the Hurricane + The access to food is very difficult for many. Seeds and Gardening material need to be buy.
- Build safer houses for future hurricanes, greenhouses, emergency sleeping places, and more..
- Some of the members of the Rastafari Communities, are requesting more active preparations for the repatriation, in the field of Agriculture and Building Constructions in Ethiopia , Shashemane, InI would like to facilitate as much as we can, this return Home to some who lost everything during the Hurricane.
This need to be accomplish as long-term donations, so please give what you can, when you can. GIVE THANKS & ONE LOVE IN Advance.
One For All, All for One Working in this Accord, there will be no failure.
We like to support this movement with the following actions:
Step 1
A sum of money has already been transferred to Bongo James (James Grant from EWF Charter 37, Peace Makers Org.) to use for emergencies, the work has started already.
Step 2: Family and Public: We will raise money in the congregation and from friends and family.
We will also start a social media campaign and send information to media and radio personalities. We will use a gofoundme camaign to collect the money and send it to Bongo James Grant via Western Union. The money should be transferred in December 2025.
Step 3
Smaller events and other actions to raise some money need to be organized now and we can collect this money and send it in January 2026, also with what collected on the gofundme.com.
RASTAFARI UNITED NATIONS
Working for Uniting All Nations
Organizer
