Disaster Response Jamaica Project #72882

Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund

Project Report | Aug 26, 2026
An update on your donation to the Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund

By Allison Conroe | Senior Associate, Disaster Response

Photo: First Hand Aid

Thank you for your continued support of GlobalGiving’s Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund.

Your donations are helping communities across Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba restore their livelihoods, feed their families, and prepare their communities for a storm resilient future.

Since our last report, your donation has helped fund seven new grants to trusted, community-led partners providing care, relief, and support on the ground in the Caribbean. Here are a few of the vital efforts you have made possible:

Jamaican Network of Rural Women Producers (JNRWP) has helped connect over 1,000 women farmers and rural households to emergency assistance, cash transfers, agricultural inputs, disaster preparedness resources, and livelihood support. JNRWP is currently supporting agricultural recovery through seed distribution, climate adaptation training, water storage initiatives, irrigation improvements, and enrollment of women farmers in risk financing and insurance programs. Beyond agriculture, the organization works to strengthen community leadership, data collection, and economic opportunities for rural women, many of whom are heads of household and primary providers for their families.
White River Marine Association quickly mobilized resources to support severely impacted fishing communities and fish sanctuaries in Jamaica in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane. As recovery has progressed, the organization has shifted its focus toward strengthening environmental resilience through coral reef restoration, mangrove protection, and innovative coastal protection strategies designed to reduce future storm impacts.
First Hand Aid is continuing to distribute food items, critical medication, and rechargeable batteries to communities in Cuba who remain isolated from the storm damage. First Hand Aid mobilizes dedicated volunteers to hand-deliver these essential items.

As GlobalGiving partner, I-SEEED Youths Limited, shared:

“Words cannot fully express our gratitude for this generous support from the Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund. On behalf of I-SEEED Youths Limited, our team, the families we serve, and the wider communities in Jamaica still rebuilding after Hurricane Melissa, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Your continued belief in our work means more than funding; it is hope, strength, and reassurance to communities that have endured so much. This support will allow us to continue responding with urgency, compassion, and dignity while strengthening both our programmes and operations on the ground.”

We remain immensely grateful for your ongoing commitment to stand by these communities as they build a more resilient future.

With gratitude,

Alli + Rylan & The GlobalGiving Team

All grantees supported to date:

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Feb 20, 2026
Thank you for your generous support of the Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund.

By Alli Conroe | Senior Associate, Disaster Response

Photo: CHSAN

Your donations continue to bring life-saving food, water, shelter, medical care, and livelihood restoration to communities across Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic.

As GlobalGiving partner, CHSAN in Haiti, shared:

“Your contribution is not only helping restore food security in our region, but it is also breathing new life into the farming community. The solidarity you are showing towards the affected farmers is invaluable.”

Two months after Hurricane Melissa’s landfall, your donations helped fund nine new grants to trusted, community-led partners providing care, relief, and support on the ground in the Caribbean. Here are a few of the vital efforts you have made possible:

Jamaican Network of Seropositives (JN+) is a Jamaican nonprofit serving individuals living with HIV/AIDS on the island. Since Hurricane Melissa made landfall, JN+ has conducted needs assessments within its communities and distributed over 550 care packages to the hardest-hit parishes. JN+ continues to provide access to medical care and emotional support to rural and isolated community members and plans to connect them with the critical medication, healthcare, and mental health support they will need over the next year.

TECHO Mexico’s teams in the Dominican Republic and Haiti are distributing emergency supplies, food, hygiene kits and medicine to affected communities in both countries. TECHO is also providing technical support for housing reconstruction with the long-term aim to help families whose homes have been completely destroyed build disaster-resilient housing for future preparedness.

Haitian Women’s Collective is a Haitian nonprofit that is subgranting to grassroots women-led organizations in Haiti supporting women and girls impacted by Hurricane Melissa through their recently launched Fund for Haitian Women. This community-led, pooled-giving fund aims to provide multi-year, unrestricted, and trust-based grants to local organizations ensuring the safety, health, livelihoods, education, and well-being of women and girls in Haiti.

Your support of the GlobalGiving Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund bolsters community-led responses like these. It means the communities they serve can strengthen their ability to respond to future changing climate and weather conditions, lowering their risk for future disasters like Hurricane Melissa.As the work transitions to recovery, your generosity is more important than ever.

With gratitude,

Alli + The GlobalGiving Team

Find here a full list of the grantees:

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Nov 10, 2025
An update on your donation to the Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund

By Allison Conroe | Senior Associate, Disaster Response

Photo: Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator Inc.

Thank you for your generous support of GlobalGiving’s Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund.

As the second strongest Atlantic storm to ever make landfall in the Caribbean, Hurricane Melissa has had devastating impacts. Your donations have already begun to deliver life-saving food, water, shelter, medical care, and vital assistance to communities across Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba.

As GlobalGiving partner, I-SEEED Youths Limited in Jamaica shared,

“The devastation we’ve witnessed firsthand is far beyond what is being shown in the media; seeing it in person brings a painful reality. [GlobalGiving’s] spirit of solidarity is a light in the midst of darkness. Every bit of collaboration now makes an immeasurable difference.”

Within the first six days of Hurricane Melissa’s landfall, your donations helped fund seven new grants to trusted, community-led partners who are providing care, relief, and support on the ground in the Caribbean. Here are a few of the vital efforts you have made possible:

I-SEEED Youths Limitedis a Jamaican nonprofit focused on promoting youth empowerment, enhancing access to education, and building sustainable livelihoods through agricultural initiatives. After assessing local community needs, the team is now providing warm meals, clean water, and basic hygiene supplies to the hardest-hit families, as well as mapping safe zones for community kitchens and temporary shelters. In the long-term, I-SEEED plans to support rebuilding and recovery efforts, including the restoration of livelihoods and working farms across the region.

First Hand Aid provides medical care and support to individuals living with disabilities and chronic illnesses in Cuba, and has been known to respond in times of crises on the island. First Hand Aid is already mobilizing its first waves of emergency goods and medicine to communities in Cuba, including nearly 1,000 pounds of medicine, clothes, food, and essential supplies.

Concorde Haïtienne de Sécurité Alimentaire et Nutritionnelle (CHSAN)is a Haitian nonprofit focusedon improving food security and combating malnutrition in the Grand’Anse region. CHSAN regularly provides food packages and clean drinking water to families at acute risk due to gang violence, supplies quality seeds to support Haitian farmers, and assess child malnutrition through targeted feeding programs. In its initial relief efforts, CHSAN is distributing clean water and food to families affected by Hurricane Melissa.

Your support of the GlobalGiving Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundbolsters community-led responses like these. With countries such as Haiti and Cuba experiencing pre-existing crises of conflict and hunger, support throughout the duration of recovery remains urgent and necessary. As one partner shared in conversation with GlobalGiving:

We thank you again for your quick, imperative support. Your solidarity means the world, and in the words of Tracey-Ann, is truly a light for us all.

With gratitude,

Alli + The GlobalGiving Team

Find here a full list of the grantees:

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About GlobalGiving’s Disaster Response

When a disaster strikes, recovery efforts led by people who live and work in affected communities are often overlooked and underfunded. GlobalGiving is changing this reality. Since 2004, we've been shifting decision-making power to crises-affected communities through trust-based grantmaking and support.

We make it easy, quick, and safe to support people on the ground who understand needs in their communities better than anyone else.

They were there long before the news cameras arrived, and they’ll be there long after the cameras leave. They know how to make their communities more resilient to future disasters, and they’re already hard at work. GlobalGiving puts donations and grants directly into their hands. Because the status quo—which gives the vast majority of funding to a few large organizations—doesn’t make sense.

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