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List of Hurricane Beryl Relief Resources

A list of resources (donations and relief efforts) outlining the various ways we can assist the communities across the Caribbean that were severely affected by Hurricane Beryl.

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We, Black Curatorial, Kwanda, Twossaints, Black Eats London & West India Cinema Corporation have come together to fundraise for people affected by Hurricane Beryl across the West Indies. As West Indian people it is imperative that we support each other and ourselves in the building back of our communities, this is a duty. Hurricane Beryl has devastated hundreds of communities in the West Indies. This is not a freak storm, this is a direct impact of climate crisis in the region - fuelled and sustained by overconsumption and emissions in the Global North. The ocean waters are 4 degrees warmer than expected at this time of year, this has directly affected the speed and ferocity of the hurricane at the beginning of this year's hurricane season. To understand what the importance of AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) is for Hurricane season in the Caribbean and globally please watch this video. The impact of this hurricane is very much being felt, "90% of homes on Union Island had been destroyed", according to Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves. We’re fundraising for people and charities across Barbados, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada and those affected across the region. The money raised will go towards helping local fishermen in Barbados to buy new boats, support roofing and housing materials for people in Carriacou, Union and Grenada and well as St Vincent to rebuild their livelihoods and homes. We are working collectively to disseminate these funds across the region ensuring they reach grassroots communities and people directly. The Hurricane is now a category 5 and on its way to Jamaica. We urge everyone to pray for its weakening and for the people currently effected by Beryl's peril. Please continue to share and donate to those affected! If you have any questions please email us.

WHERE ARE THE DONATIONS GOING?

This fund exists to go directly to grassroots organisations providing support for those across the following countries: Barbados St Vincent & the Grenadines Carriacou Petite Martinique Union Grenada Jamaica

HOW WILL THEY BE PROCESSED AND ADMINISTERED?

We are working with Kwanda to help disseminate the funds to the existing groups they work with in the affected countries. Black Curatorial work across Barbados and Jamaica administering funds for creatives via the Fly Me Out Fund our process of sending money via transfer is already set up to support and facilitate this fund's dissemination.

WHO'S INVOLVED?

Black Curatorial Kwanda West India Cinema Corporation Twossaints Black Eats London

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St Vincent and Grenadines: this nation state consists of the main island of St Vincent with its capital, Kingstown, located towards the south, along with a chain of smaller islands which together comprise the northern Grenadines (the southern Grenadines belong to Grenada).

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Light academia, but it's based on the stylings of the Caribbean? 🥺

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Visualizing Caribbean Sovereignty

Animated video designed by Yarimar Bonilla (Rutgers University) and Max Hantel (Dartmouth College) for the journal Small Axe Archipelagos. 

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OCHA Briefing on the Humanitarian Situation from Hurricane Beryl.

Hurricane Beryl hit Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada on 1 July as a Category 4 hurricane, increasing to a Category 5 thereafter. This makes it the earliest Category 5 Atlantic hurricane on record, and among the worst storms to hit both countries since recordkeeping began in 1851. Over 80,000 people were potentially affected by Hurricane Beryl across Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and nearly 60,000 people are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance.

The response to Hurricane Beryl is led by the Governments of the affected countries, with support from the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and international partners. In support of the Government-led and regional relief efforts, humanitarian partners are ramping up lifesaving and life-sustaining assistance. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has published a Regional Overview and Planned Response plan that outlines the strategic objectives, timeline, and priority activities by sector. This briefing note provides guidance on how businesses can contribute to the humanitarian efforts underway.

Watch the OCHA Briefing on the Humanitarian Situation from Hurricane Beryl!

Briefing Note for the Private Sector: Regional Overview and Planned Response for Hurricane Beryl.

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Hurricane Beryl

by Ryan Clement IT HAS BEEN A TOUGH WEEK! A week ago we were bracing ourselves for Hurricane Beryl. It has arrived and left its devastation in its long trail. St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica, Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique, to name just a few places, have felt Beryl’s wrath. FAITH in HUMANity FRIENDS HAVE DONATED various things to the recovery campaigns, some of…

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The Clara Lionel Foundation, which The Right Honourable Robyn “Rihanna” Fenty established, is supporting relief efforts throughout the Caribbean. Learn more about these efforts and the climate resilience and climate justice initiatives of the Foundation.

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Hurricane Beryl—the earliest Category 4 and Category 5 storm to ever form in the Atlantic Basin—killed at least seven people as it tore through the southeastern Caribbean nations of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada on Monday, leaving behind devastation that the leaders of both countries compared to "Armageddon."

Scientists say that the record-breaking storm intensified so rapidly and so early in the season due to above-average ocean temperatures heated primarily by the burning of fossil fuels.

"What we see here are the consequences of a rampaging climate change," Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves toldDemocracy Now! on Wednesday morning. "We are in the era of the Anthropocene, and the developed countries—the major emitters—are not taking this matter seriously."

Beryl made landfall on Carriacou Island in Grenada at around 11:00 am EDT on Monday as a Category 4 storm before strengthening to a Category 5 later in the day. With winds blowing as high as 150 miles per hour, it was the strongest hurricane to hit the Grenadines since at least 1851.

The storm flattened Carriacou in half an hour, Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said in a press briefing late Monday.

"Having seen it myself, there is really nothing that could prepare you to see this level of destruction," Mitchell told reporters. "It is almost Armageddon-like. Almost total damage or destruction of all buildings, whether they be public buildings, homes, or private facilities. Complete devastation and destruction of agriculture, complete and total destruction of the natural environment. There is literally no vegetation left anywhere on the island of Carriacou."

The hurricane also pummeled the Grenadian island of Martinique. On the two islands, which are home to around 6,000 people, the storm damaged or destroyed 98% of structures, including Carriacou's marinas, airport, and main hospital, The New York Times reported. It also wiped out electricity and communications on the two islands, damaged crops, downed trees and power lines, and flattened Carriacou's mangroves.

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Escapees, Ron Mitchell, 30, Trevon Robertson, 19, and Abita Stanislaus, 25, got on Kathy Brandel and Ralph Hendry’s yacht.

https://youtu.be/1xw_nMSQ-H8

The escapees are vicious criminals, and Mitchell has a thing for rape. The American couple are missing and feared dead. Your thoughts? Naked!!

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This map includes the microstates Grenada, St Vincent and Grenadines, Barbados, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda. Yay microstates!

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