{"id":24694,"date":"2025-10-29T04:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/24694\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T04:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:23:06","slug":"fundraising-already-underway-to-help-jamaica-residents-after-the-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/24694\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising already underway to help Jamaica residents after the hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; A Jamaican citizen affiliated with a student group at the University of South Florida is working with a Canadian chef on the island to mobilize an effort to feed communities devastated by Hurricane Melissa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Joshua Shirley, a member of the Jamaican Alliance Movement at USF has created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/feeding-hope-and-rebuilding-homes\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/feeding-hope-and-rebuilding-homes\">GoFundMe page<\/a> to raise funds for supplies and ingredients to help Chef Matthieu Masson-Duceppe cook for people who will likely lose everything from one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAlong with providing ingredients for as many people in need as possible, your donations will be used to rebuild homes and assist residents of the Portland Cottage area in Clarendon,\u201d the GoFundMe page says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Masson Duceppe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/no-one-left-hungry-join-us-in-feeding-our-neighbors?fbclid=IwY2xjawNuHF5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFndmVPeDZ4ZmZIQzdHZ3FJAR4_udtKm7Z2a43v62HK1m8bsuGmJqDhg9cow7ewUA5he_5BCRAagf4rvhXQ-A_aem_5HgID-2t3GoNou9hqgwq4Q\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/no-one-left-hungry-join-us-in-feeding-our-neighbors?fbclid=IwY2xjawNuHF5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFndmVPeDZ4ZmZIQzdHZ3FJAR4_udtKm7Z2a43v62HK1m8bsuGmJqDhg9cow7ewUA5he_5BCRAagf4rvhXQ-A_aem_5HgID-2t3GoNou9hqgwq4Q\">has also created a GoFundMe<\/a> for the effort. \u201cWe are currently looking for cooks, dishwashers, any help we can get to join our team so we can prepare thousands of warm meals for families who may lose access to food and essential supplies,\u201d the page says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A Jamaican citizen affiliated with a student group at the University of South Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[575,1846,12146,5097,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-24694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-food","tag-hurricane","tag-jamaica","tag-melissa","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24694","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=24694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}