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Hurricane Maria Family Relief

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The destructive winds and rains of the Hurricane Maria made a devastating landfall in Across the Caribbean Islands, as the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years. The gale force winds ripped the roofs off of homes, uprooted trees and brought down power lines Island wide across Puerto Rico. While some of the residents of the Island were blessed to have their homes and personal property spared, Approximately 95% of the population have suffered crippling losses from the storm. Most of residents of the Island are now homeless, scarce of food, without water and shelter in this state of emergency with a 6:00 PM curfew.

The foundations of homes have been critically damaged due to the rising waters and flooding. Neighborhoods along the coastal regions of the Island have been flooded and submerged with up to 10 ft. of rising storm surge. The homes that remain standing need to be completely gutted due to the risk of mold. Fallen powerlines, limbs and trees smashed cars and roofs remain widespread all across the Island.

This an unimaginable disaster has forced all schools and businesses to close their doors. Many business infrastructures have been critically damaged have lost their entire inventory in the aftermath of Maria. 


The Island has lost 100% of its power. Prior to the island being hit by Hurricane Irma and now Maria, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority said it needed more than $4 billion to overhaul its outdated power plants and now could face bankruptcy with an estimated $74 billion in restructuring, leaving the grid billions of dollars in debt. It could take up to 6 months or longer for the Island of Puerto Rico to regain its fragile electrical grid from the devastation of this storm. The Puerto Rican government funding budget for disaster relief has only $20 million to allocate in aid, forcing The Island of Puerto Rico to rely on the Trump administration and Federal Emergency.


With your help and charitable donations I hope to be able to provide food, shelter, clothing as basic necessities for my sister, her children and family who have lost everything in the aftermath of the storm and provide relocation expenses to help assist them rebuild their life again. Any amount you decide to donate will be very much appreciated and will make a huge difference in the lives of my sister, her children and family that have been upended by this unfortunate disaster… They are without anything.  They need everything! Everything is gone or destroyed!!! Even If You Can Donate Spare Change.

My goal is to raise enough money to bring them back to the states and get them settled and acclimated with the basics to rebuild their life before the riots gets worse, everyone is stealing from everyone and I suspect it is going to get worse. They Still have NOT got any aid even from the Red Cross as of yet 9/27/2017

PLEASE HELP ME HELP MY FAMILY


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Meredith Cummings
Organizer
Hopedale, MA

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