Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, along with other county officials, on Tuesday, boxed up hurricane relief items and are urging others to lend a hand too after Hurricane Melissa touched down in Jamaica..<\/p>\n
“Everyone can volunteer,’ again, this place will be swarming with volunteers, and that gives us all hope and makes us all feel proud,” Levine Cava said.<\/p>\n
Global Empowerment Mission, headquartered in Doral, specializes in this, as they gather, sort and box items needed after a hurricane passes.<\/p>\n
Founder Michael Capponi said they\u2019ve learned over the years.<\/p>\n
“In the Haiti earthquake, for example, there was 21,000 registered organizations, the first six months of that, none communicating with each other, each doing their own thing,” he said.<\/p>\n
And it created more of a mess.<\/p>\n
GEM is centralized, storing, organizing and shipping much-needed items from their Doral warehouse directly to areas where they’re needed the most.<\/p>\n
“I wanted to just point out that I have a friend there,” said Wendy Hart with American Friends of Jamaica.<\/p>\n
Hart held back tears when talking about her country, the storm and the hardships Jamaicans are currently facing.<\/p>\n
“Their houses are falling apart around them, their jobs are in jeopardy, their schools, their clinics, so the response need is going to be terrific,” she said.<\/p>\n
Organizers said there are three ways you can help: By donating items, donating your time and\/or donating cash to help with shipping costs because it\u2019s expensive sending tons of relief items into disaster zones.<\/p>\n
Organizers are waiting for airports to open, and then they will go from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, along with other county officials, on Tuesday, boxed up hurricane relief items and are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,807],"class_list":["post-24626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}