{"id":66003,"date":"2025-12-01T03:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/66003\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T03:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:01:09","slug":"global-empowerment-mission-sends-more-aid-to-jamaica-after-hurricane-melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/66003\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Empowerment Mission sends more aid to Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0November 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM<\/p>\n<p>Global Empowerment Mission sends more aid to Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DORAL, Fla. \u2014 The Global Empowerment Mission is sending another shipment of aid to Jamaica on Monday as the island continues to recover from Hurricane Melissa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The organization has already delivered 23 planes, 21 containers and three ships filled with supplies \u2014 a total of about 3 million pounds of food and materials valued at roughly $5 million, according to GEM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Volunteers packed food boxes bound for communities still struggling in the storm\u2019s aftermath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jeff Popovich, vice president of the Global Empowerment Mission, said the need for volunteers and donations remains urgent and the organization expects to continue its relief work well into the recovery phase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAs we move into longer-term recovery, we will need plywood and 2-by-8s,\u201d Popovich said.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Bridgette Matter\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/2dda0f91-39c8-479e-9e.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Bridgette Matter<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Bridgette Matter joined the Local 10 News team as a reporter in July 2021. Before moving to South Florida, she began her career in South Bend, Indiana and spent six years in Jacksonville as a reporter and weekend anchor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0November 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM Global Empowerment Mission sends more aid to Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa DORAL,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-66003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66003","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=66003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}