A Time For Relief: Hurricane Dorian’s Path and How You Can Help the Bahamas
Photograph Courtesy of Time Magazine
You were tuned into the news coverage over the weekend as images of Hurricane Dorian’s cyclonic assault of triple-digit wind speeds touched down upon Great Abaco and Grand Bahama Islands. There were no sunshine-washed portraits of tourist-friendly beaches synonymous with the much-loved destination on your television screen. No blue skies meeting an endless stretches of turquoise ocean water at the horizon. Now, all you saw was the onslaught of ten-foot-high tides washing away homes, schools, businesses and places of worship. Towns were reduced to flotsam. Everyday life shattered. Normalcy lost. Watching this Category Four Storm-level of destruction happen made you fear the worst..
When the waves subsided and the cloudless skies returned, the wreckage was all that remained for those portions of the islands hit the hardest. You could only shake your head in complete shock at the relentless force this natural disaster imposed on this portion of the Caribbean. Your heart sank when the rhythmic scrolling of you feed instantly stopped at the image of the woman with outstretched arms standing in the rumble. The sight of knowing how the debris now covered these landscapes made you recline back into your couch and made you put Netflix on pause cloaking the room in silence. Two seconds later, you came across the headlight that said ‘thousands believed to be washed out to sea’. Your jaw dropped.
Yeah, we felt the same way.
Adventure in Black is committed to spreading the word on ways people in our network and the global community can help donate to those impacted by Hurricane Dorian. The leveling of buildings and infrastructure will take years to rebuild. The closure that comes with trying to move on may take a lifetime to recover. This nightmare situation becomes direr when The Leader of The Free World equates paper towels as an ideal method of aid for those in need of hurricane relief. Labeling survivors traveling for refuge as another criminal element entering the United States.
We have to be the ones to look out for ourselves.
Please donate your time and efforts to finding ways to aid those in need through responsible fundraising campaigns after you have done your own research. Below are three great places to start.
The American Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org
The Grand Bahama Disaster Relief Fund: https://www.gbdisasterrelief.org/
Global Giving: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/hurricane-dorian-relief-fund/
They need your help. The time to give it is now.
Thank You.