Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund: Rural Jamaica

Wi likkle but wi tallawah and this too shall pass.

Hurricane Melissa is destroying Jamaica. A little money goes a long way in rural communities that may never receive support from the government. My name is Danielle Jones from Mandeville, Jamaica; Beach towns, farmers markets and bakeries I grew up with have been flooded, flattened and destroyed. I am personally working with the Legacy Foundation based in the parish of Manchester to service our neighbours of Westmoreland, Clarendon and St. Elizabeth. This monetary donation will be used to provide medical supplies, rebuild homes, and restore hospitals to members of those communities mid-term to long-term.

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It is unfair that the global north has brought this mass destruction on our nation, and developing nations continue to pay for the damage caused by others.

Where the money will go:

1. Medical assistance

2. Nourishing people

3. Providing sustainable solutions for reconstruction

Dec 31 Update:

+ ReggaeVibes Donation used to power 7 families in the community of Thornton St. Elizabeth with: Outdoor Solar Lights, Solar powered portable battery pack chargers, Headlights. This community has been without electricity for 2 months since the landfall of Hurricane Melissa

*Considered making a donation of $500 towards back to school efforts, however we will hold off until the schools are physically rebuilt by the government. Until then, the children have nowhere to go to school.

+ Donated $500 to the transformation of a community space into a temporary shelter where hot meals, fresh clean water, construction supplies and temporary shelter will service the people of Whitehall St. Elizabeth

Nov 22 Update:

+ $500 in Medical Supplies, Coloring books and water to Petersfield, Westmoreland across 3 weeks of convoys

+ Construction tools, Tarpaulins and temporary sleeping items (pillows, sheets, etc) deployed to Whitehouse, Westmoreland

+ $300 in sanitary items purchased (wipes, masks, pads)

+ $375 raised in partnership with ReggaeVibes Dunedin

Nov 3, 2025 update:

*Relief efforts are underway with duttypaul x Food For the Poor, Breds foundation in Treasure beach, Amy Pearson of AP beauty is making weekly trips, Voila by Lian in Mandeville is running a soup kitchen, doctors are banding together to heal the wounded - THERE IS HOPE

*The nation still needs help: people are starving, naked and homeless

*Cattle and livestock have been wiped out - this is a primary source of income, the people will need their lands cleared and time to bring their heard numbers back up

Oct 29, 2025 update:

Partial Melissa Recap based on reports provided to date:

* Mandeville suffered massive property damage

*MoBay property damage and roofs lost and Cornwall Regional Hospital partially damaged

*Cave Valley, Clarendon & environs houses submerged

*Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth houses and communities flooded, section of St Elizabeth Technical HighSchool roof gone

*Black River - Disaster Zone: JPS building, Hospital & Market massively damaged

*Treasure Beach - guest houses and Jakes Hotel suffered significant damage

*Spalding's flooded all over

*Morant Bay under water

*Frankfield many roads impassable,

roofs gone on homes and at Edwin Allen High School@

*St Andrew land-slippage, roof loss, flooding and road damage

*Bath, St Thomas - Plantain Garden River banks eroded putting commercial & residential buildings at risk and vehicles slipped into the raging waters

*Hospitals damaged: Black River Hospital St Elizabeth, Cornwall Regional St James, Noel Holmes Hospital in Hanover , Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny

*Infrastructure - roads & bridges damaged across the island, electricity poles downed, Water systems interrupted, WiFi & Cell systems impacted