29/10/2025
Jamaica 🇯🇲 My soul place. My ancestral land. My heart weeps for you. No adequate words can form in my mouth right now. Watching the catastrophe unfold from across the Atlantic feeling helplessness for my loved ones and fellow islanders. I imagined the fear and trauma my family and friends were experiencing. If I felt my stomach in knots and nausea, what were they thinking, feeling and praying during the storm.
I wondered if I would have a home to return to, but Kingston has thankfully been spared the worse. My mind still cannot process the catastrophic images and suffering on the news and how it must be much more magnified on the ground especially for those communities in the western region of the island. I still haven’t heard from my family in St Elizabeth and I’m praying for their safety and well-being.
Jamaicans and their descendants at home and abroad are shell shocked and numb. Jamaicans are a spiritual, beautiful, strong and resilient people. I know the community on the ground, in the Diaspora as well as foreign friends around the world will join hands with us (as well as our Haitian, Cuban, Dominican and Bahamian brothers and sisters also impacted from Hurricane Melissa) as we rebuild stronger together. We will rise again. 🙏🏾🖤💚💛🇯🇲🙏🏾
These organizations below are legitimate and putting in the work if you wish to donate (I continue to post others in stories).
The government of Jamaica has also created an official donation website - www.supportjamaica.gov.jm
