Samaritan’s Purse has completed four DC-8 airlifts to the islands. Now we are treating patients in Grenada and providing relief supplies to residents in multiple Caribbean locations.
- We have transported dozens of personnel and more than 111 tons of relief and medical supplies to the islands aboard four DC-8 flights. We have 80 staff on the ground.
- We are assisting with shelter, clean water, mobile medical care, and other relief in Carriacou, Petite Martinique, Jamaica, and St. Vincent.
- Medical teams are already treating dozens of patients and operating a lab at our field hospital on Carriacou to support the local medical system crippled by the storm.
Hurricane Beryl roared ashore Grenada’s Carriacou Island July 1 as a Category 4 storm packing 150-mph winds and dangerous storm surge. This deadly cyclone quickly strengthened to a Category 5 as it tore northwestward through the southern Caribbean toward the Gulf of Mexico. Wind, rain, and storm surge destroyed hundreds of homes and left towns and residential areas under water. At least six people were killed by the storm.
We are working alongside local church partners to serve on Grenada’s Carriacou Island, on St. Vincent, and in Jamaica.
Many communities are still without electricity, access to clean water, and basic medical care. A number of residents are also without homes or other shelter.
We have delivered more than 111 tons of lifesaving relief to the region, including an emergency field hospital, hundreds rolls of shelter tarp, jerry cans, a desalination water treatment unit, solar lights, and hygiene kits. Our doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel began providing critical care July 9 from our field hospital in Cariacou.
“Hurricane Beryl pummeled the Windward Islands, and left thousands of families in need of emergency relief. We started building out pallets of cargo before the hurricane even made landfall and are now on the way with life-saving aid. Please join me in praying for the families who are in the path of this storm, and for our Samaritan’s Purse staff who will be serving them.”
This is the first Atlantic hurricane of 2024 and the strongest storm in recorded history to pass through the Grenadines, a small island chain including Grenada and St. Lucia in the southern Caribbean’s Windward Islands.
Beryl moved ashore in Texas after departing the Gulf of Mexico and moving inland, making landfall as a Category 1 storm July 8 and wrecking coastal homes with wind and tree damage in the southeastern part of the state. As Beryl weakened to a tropical storm, it dumped torrential rain in the Houston area where neighborhoods were left under water. We have deployed a Disaster Relief Unit—a tractor-trailer filled with relief equipment and supplies—to Brazoria County, Texas, to help hurting homeowners in Jesus’ Name.
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Our doctors and nurses are provided medical care in Jesus’ Name to residents of Carriacou where Hurricane Beryl devastated infrastructure and crippled local medical systems.
Our teams constructed an EFH on Carriacou providing inpatient and outpatient care. We are also providing lab services as the only operational lab on the island.
Our community water filtration systems make the islands’ brackish water clean and drinkable.
Carriacou residents now can enjoy clean drinking water available through our desalination system.
We are distributing heavy duty tarp and solar lights as many island residents continue to live without shelter or electricity.
Islanders are reminded they’re not alone as our teams serve them alongside local church partners.
In many areas of Carriacou, the destruction was total.
Our helicopter is also transporting supplies to islands.
We transported more than 50 tons of relief to the islands aboard our DC-8.
We have sent three DC-8 airlifts to the islands.
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Please pray for the many, now, homeless and grieving residents of the islands as we begin distributing supplies and assisting with their basic needs. Pray for local churches and for our team as we work together in Jesus’ Name, that these many hurting people will experience the love of God and remember He has not forgotten them.
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