{"id":26971,"date":"2025-10-30T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/26971\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:52:08","slug":"donations-for-hurricane-melissa-victims-being-collected-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/26971\/","title":{"rendered":"Donations for Hurricane Melissa victims being collected in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3E372870689A94F60A356908EC38DFAD.jpg\" alt=\"Hurricane Melissa relief efforts underway\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">TAMPA &#8211; Supplies are being collected at Jerk Hut, a restaurant at 1241 E. Fowler Ave.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The effort is being spearheaded by the Caribbean Community Association and the Caribbean American National Development Organization.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">They are asking for canned food, medical supplies, personal hygiene products and cleaning equipment.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">They are not asking for clothing and bottled water.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/florida-based-relief-groups-launch-efforts-storm-ravaged-jamaica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida-based relief groups launch efforts to storm-ravaged Jamaica<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Supplies can be dropped off for the next several weeks, as they will be taking supplies to organizing hubs for it to be sorted and then shipped.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It is not clear as to how long it will take for supplies to reach Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/weather\/hurricanes\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricanes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/money\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Money<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA &#8211; Supplies are being collected at Jerk Hut, a restaurant at 1241 E. Fowler Ave. The effort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[944,2159,115,135,137,136,221],"class_list":{"0":"post-26971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-hurricanes","9":"tag-money","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news","14":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26971","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=26971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}