Samaritan’s Purse has completed three 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 50 tons of relief and medical supplies to the islands aboard three DC-8 flights.
- We are assisting with shelter, clean water, mobile medical care, and other relief in Carriacou, Petite Martinique, Jamaica, and St. Vincent.
- We are treating 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 50 tons of lifesaving relief to the region, including an emergency field hospital, hundreds of rolls of shelter tarp, jerry cans, a desalination water treatment unit, solar lights, and hygiene kits.
“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.
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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.