Tons of donations packed and shipped from Miami have been arriving in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa devastated much of the island, leaving at least 32 dead and over a million people desperate for food and water. But it’s not enough.
“It’s a Hurricane Maria, an Irma and a Dorian all compounded,” said Michael Capponi, the CEO of Miami-based disaster relief nonprofit Global Empowerment Mission (GEM), while in Kingston.
“I’m now 100 percent convinced that all the aid coming from all the aid groups combined will not even be a quarter of what’s needed,” Capponi said. “Here, you have a situation with way over a million people that are hungry and starving. You have an impending secondary disaster that is unfolding as we speak right now, and it will probably get much, much worse throughout this week and next week.”
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