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Appeal for Support: Helping Jamaica Recover After Storm Melissa

Severe flooding and high winds from Storm Melissa have left communities across Jamaica devastated. Homes have been destroyed, roads blocked, and families displaced. Many are without clean water or shelter — and they need our help now.

Disaster Aid UK & Ireland is working to provide emergency relief to those most affected. We are focusing on delivering safe drinking water, temporary shelter, hygiene supplies, and essential household items to help families begin the long process of recovery.

Your support can make a real and immediate difference:

£25 can supply clean water for a family for a month
£50 can help provide vital shelter materials
£100 can support the rebuilding of a damaged home

Every donation brings hope and practical help to those who have lost so much.

Please stand with us and with the people of Jamaica. Together, we can bring comfort, restore dignity, and help communities rebuild their lives after this disaster.

Donate now to Disaster Aid UK & Ireland and make your compassion count. CLICK HERE

Celebrating 50 Years of Helping those affected by a Disaster

When we are not running appeals for specific disasters, our focus is on raising funds to prepare,
so that we are ready for future disasters.

Funds provided before a disaster have a much bigger impact, as it means that we can deploy with more aid, more quickly.

To help us be ready for the next appeal please go to our donation webpage

If your organisation, club or group would like a speaker for your meetings, we would be very happy speak about Disaster Aid UK & Ireland, and answer any questions they might have.

Please contact us with suggested details of the time and date of the meeting. Email: admin@disasteraiduk.org

Disaster Aid UK & Ireland

Disaster Aid UK & Ireland is one of the founding partners of Disaster Aid International (DAI). DAI is an international organisation, involving Rotary Clubs around the world, with the mission to:

Respond to disasters with the supply of humanitarian aid to the affected communities and/or individuals.
Work in partnership on humanitarian projects funded by other organisations including Rotary clubs and Rotary districts.

In contrast to many other disaster-response groups, our aim is also to provide an infrastructure that allows affected communities to regain their normal lives.

Deployments

What do DARTs do?:

Conduct an assessment of the disaster and local needs;
Coordinate with relevant governments, aid agencies and the affected communities to ensure that aid is deployed where most effective;
Manage the effective distribution of equipment, tents etc. to the sites of deployment;
Train members of the local community so that they can be involved in the distribution and deployment of the equipment, tents etc.;
Work to ensure that deployments are designed to support longer term sustainability;
Monitor and evaluate our deployments to ensure that both the products we are deploying as well as the means of distribution are relevant, effective and reach out to the most vulnerable.

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