US EditionHunger and makeshift shelters persist in north Caribbean nearly 2 months after Hurricane Melissa
Nearly 1.3 million people in the Caribbean need food or aid, with the World Food Program assisting 725,000, as recovery from Hurricane Melissa continues.
- Nearly two months after Hurricane Melissa, about 6 million people across the Caribbean were affected, including 1.2 million in Haiti, with thousands still seeking food and rebuilding homes in Petit-Goâve.
- Striking in late October, Hurricane Melissa hit as a Category 5 storm and unleashed deadly flooding that swept away homes and people along La Digue River in Petit-Goâve, Haiti.
- Officials report that the storm killed at least 45 people, with 13 missing and 32 deaths under investigation, while health authorities report leptospirosis and tetanus cases in seven Jamaican parishes.
- Around 1.3 million people now need support, with World Food Program aiding 725,000; its $83 million appeal is only 50% funded, and Jamaica secured a $150 million loan to restore power.
- Facing major reconstruction costs, Jamaica has secured a $6.7 billion package over three years from multilateral lenders while Cuba evacuated more than 700,000 and about 53,000 remain displaced.
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Emergency foodstuffs from Florida Catholics delivered to people in eastern Cuba
MIAMI (OSV News) — In time for Christmas, a fourth, and possibly final air delivery of emergency foodstuffs from Catholics in Florida made their way recently to the people of eastern Cuba still rebuilding their lives and communities in the aftermath of this year’s Hurricane Melissa. Hurricane Melissa brought catastrophic damage to the Caribbean in late October. It made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm before passing over Cuba, the Baham…
Thousands of people in the Caribbean are still looking for food and trying to rebuild their lives two months after Hurricane Melissa.
Sitting on a piece of destroyed concrete, Amizia Renotte points out a large pile of rubble at the place where her house was before being destroyed by Hurricane Melissa.
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Hunger and makeshift shelters persist in north Caribbean nearly 2 months after Hurricane Melissa
The Atlantic hurricane season may be over. But thousands of people in Haiti and beyond are still looking for food and struggling to rebuild their lives nearly two months after Hurricane Melissa pummeled the northern Caribbean.
From the ground, and following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean, the regional director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Lola Castro, stressed on Thursday the urgent need to maintain international attention on Haiti, one of the countries most affected by the climate and humanitarian crisis in the region. The official […]
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