Media Alert: FFTP Responds to Hurricane Beryl
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 4, 2024) – Food For The Poor (FFTP) is assessing needs and responding with emergency relief supplies in Jamaica to help families affected by Hurricane Beryl, which blew off roofs, knocked out power and battered the country with intense wind and rain on Wednesday.
In the days before Beryl approached, FFTP-Jamaica prepositioned food items in areas that could be cut off during a storm.
Critical aid ready to be deployed includes:
- • Disaster preparedness kits for 500 families
- • 16 containers of food
- • Six containers of healthcare supplies
- • Five containers of other essential items
- • A water filter unit from partner Water Mission with the capacity to filter up to 10,000 gallons of water per day
“Our distribution network in Jamaica goes out to more than 30 end points, which are typically churches,” said FFTP President/CEO Ed Raine. “We have a very large network to distribute aid.”
FFTP also is assessing needs in the islands of the southeast Caribbean that were devastated by Beryl on Monday.
The charity prepositioned disaster preparedness kits in St. Lucia, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago to empower local response, with each kit containing supplies for at least 250 families. Many of these countries are supporting each other through the network partner Caritas Antilles.
Cash donations are encouraged to expedite delivery of aid and to make in-country purchases and assist FFTP partners with grants. Support FFTP’s response at foodforthepoor.org/hurricaneberyl
Food For The Poor, one of the largest international relief and development organizations in the nation, does much more than feed millions of hungry children and families living in poverty primarily in 15 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. This interdenominational Christian ministry provides emergency relief assistance, water, medicine, educational materials, homes, support for vulnerable children, care for the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance. For more information, please visit foodforthepoor.org.
Ernestine Williams
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Michael Turnbell
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