January 19, 2026
Update on the Hurricane Melissa Appeal, run jointly with the Methodist Church in Britain.
Through our partners in the region, your support is ensuring that essential services are available for remote and hard to reach areas of Jamaica, impacted by the hurricane.
The Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas (MCCA), a long-standing Church partner of All We Can and The Methodist Church in Britain, is providing 1,000 hygiene kits, to be distributed across three parishes in Jamaica. In addition, the money is enabling MCCA to provide tarpaulins for homes and schools to help provide emergency cover where building repairs are yet to take place.
Food security needs are being met through the provision of breakfast meals and access to water is being facilitated through the provision of water tanks for water distribution. These activities comprise MCCA’s multi-faceted response.
In recent years, All We Can and The Methodist Church in Britain have supported MCCA to improve their ability to mobilise in response to emergencies, recognising the importance of equipping the church for action for such a time as this. The local church is already present in, and known by, communities. As such, the local church maintains a privileged position to contribute to local community response.
We’re also working with Water Mission, who are arranging water trucking to hard-to-reach communities in Westmoreland, St Elizabeth and Trelawny parishes, coupled with the distribution of jerry cans so families can safely store clean water at home The work of Water Mission is complimenting the work of MCCA and vice-versa.
Your kindness is making a real, tangible difference. Thank you for standing with these communities. We look forward to being able to share more updates soon.
