Catholic Charities Miami delivers Hurricane Melissa assistance to the Caribbean

Published on December 2, 2025

Thanksgiving weekend set the stage for a fourth, possibly final, air delivery of emergency foodstuffs from Catholics in Miami to the people of eastern Cuba following this year’s Hurricane Melissa.

Hurricane Melissa brought catastrophic damage to the Caribbean in late October. It made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm before passing over Cuba, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

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