More South Florida cities, organizations launch relief efforts for Melissa-impacted Caribbean islands

More South Florida cities and organizations are stepping up to help those in the Caribbean who have been impacted by Hurricane Melissa s path of destruction News cameras captured pallets of food and supplies at Greater Good Charities warehouse in Wilton Manors Wednesday afternoon The nonprofit has been collecting items for days before the storm made its final approach into Jamaica as a Category storm The goods they have collected are expected to be flown to Jamaica Wednesday night into Thursday morning This may be an enduring response This could take a month or two for us to have folks on the ground to distribute goods commented Jay Humphrey with Greater Good Charities We just really don t know what we re up against in this matter now but oftentimes it does take up to several weeks to a month before we can head back and start to resupply our caches and look for unfortunately the next tragedy For more information about Greater Good Charities click here Wednesday morning the City of Tamarac verified they ve launched a supply drive to help the people of Jamaica Authorities stated they are accepting new unopened items only at multiple drop-off locations between a m and p m Those locations are as follows Tamarac City Hall NW th Ave Fire Station Hiatus Road Tamarac Area Center W Commercial Blvd Tamarac Recreation Center N University Dr Fire Station NW nd St For more information about Tamarac s supply drive click here South of the county line Global Empowerment Mission continues its relief efforts out of their headquarters in Doral For more information on Melissa donations to GEM click here For information on region volunteering at GEM click here