RASTAFARI RELIEF, REBUILD & RISE PLAN

The Rastafari Mansions and Organizations (RMO) in Jamaica has developed a Rastafari Relief, and Rebuild (RRR) plan and resource mobilization drive in response to the devastating impact of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa that severely damaged or demolished the majority of homes, businesses and communities in the western parishes of Jamaica on October 28, 2025.

In the first instance, the Rastafari 3R plan aims to provide emergency assistance to the Rastafari and wider community through 5 designated priority Rastafari response sites, located in the hardest hit areas while using the support to build forward better to advance longer term critical goals of food and water security and sovereignty with a RasTafari Ital food system supporting seed to table and eventually export of packaged foods for income generation. This economic self-sufficiency will be used for collective security and to accelerate progress towards repatriation through more systematic and functional linkages between Jamaica and the African continent.

Relief, Rebuild & Rise Plan

The RMO will assist in restoring and upgrading 5 priority Rastafari Centres in the most affected parishes to deliver the following vital services:

• Temporary shelter for vulnerable families

• Community outreach, food & supply packages

• Health, wellness & elder care clinics

• Trauma therapy, youth edu-tainment & culture

• Ital farming & food production

• Repatriation partnerships & preparation

Priority Rastafari Relief, Rebuild & Rise Sites

The following are the 5 Priority Sites and wider community catchment areas identified for Phase 1 Emergency Relief and Rebuilding:

Pitfour Nyahbinghi Centre (Granville) - St James catchment area

Coral Gardens Benevolent Society and Elder Care - Albion, Black River catchment area

House of Seba - Falmouth Trelawny catchment area

Malvern Nyahbinghi Centre - St Elizabeth catchment area

Bobo Hill EABIC Outreach Centre / Bull Bay - St Thomas catchment area

The Rastafari legacy mansions in Jamaica have for decades served as sites for Rastafari Nyahbinghi gatherings where Rastafari commune spiritually with the Most High through drumming, chanting, prayer and fire for purification against systems of injustice. The centres facilitate community meetings, and outreach support and generally provide for cultural preservation of the foundation of Rastafari where youth learn from elders on the teachings of Ethiopian history, Rastafari livity, and mission for repatriation.

Upgrading and equipping the Rastafari sites to serve as Temporary Disaster Relief shelters and provide Community Outreach services will be a natural extension of the Rastafari sites to more ably deliver on the Rastafari Creed - “Let the hungry be fed, the naked clothed, the sick nourished, the aged protected and the infants cared for”.

Who is the RMO and what is its Mission?

The RMO (Rastafari Mansions and Organizations) in Jamaica is an umbrella organization consisting of 14 Rastafari Mansions and organizations from across Jamaica with partners worldwide committed to the centralization of Rastafari in Jamaica and worldwide. The Mission of the RMO is to unite the legitimate Rastafari mansions and organizations for the purpose of harnessing the collective assets and resources towards advancement of the Ras Tafari community to

advocate with One Voice for the interests of the Rastafari Community and support cooperative economic empowerment to fulfil the Ras Tafari Creed.

The current signatories to the RMO constitution are as follows: Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress (BoboAshanti), Rastafari Coral Gardens Benevolent Society (RCGBS), the Leonard P. Howell Foundation, House of Dread, House of Seba, the Haile Selassie I School of Vision, Association of Rastafari Creatives, Rastafari Indigenous Village, Rastafari Roothouse, Cannacure Rastafari Sanctuary, Starscape Rastafari Sanctuary and Eco-Village, Peacemakers International, Sugar Loaf Peak and LifeYard.

The RMO builds on all previous Rastafari efforts to organize and centralize with the important development of now having a formal Constitution signed by the respective members which was ratified on Aug 27, 2023. Though the Nyahbinghi House and Twelve Tribes of Israel are not yet formal signatories of the RMO, the two mansions have been working closely with the RMO on its key initiatives and will be strengthening collaboration on the Rastafari, Rebuild and Rise mission.

This campaign will be updated shortly with the costing estimates for each phase.