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FAQ: Churches of Scientology Disaster Response Collaboration for Hurricane Melissa Relief in Jamaica
TL;DR
Operation BBQ Relief and Churches of Scientology Disaster Response gained operational advantage by efficiently coordinating volunteers to ship over 270,000 meals to Hurricane Melissa survivors.
Operation BBQ Relief organized volunteers in Florida warehouses to pack non-perishable food into family meal boxes using assembly lines, forklifts, and air and truck transport logistics.
This collaboration between disaster response organizations provided life-saving meals to Jamaican families facing hunger after Hurricane Melissa, demonstrating global humanitarian solidarity.
Volunteers from multiple organizations worked together in a fast-paced warehouse operation packing thousands of meal boxes for hurricane survivors in an impressive display of community effort.
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The collaboration aimed to provide food relief for survivors in Jamaica affected by Hurricane Melissa by packing and shipping thousands of meals through coordinated volunteer efforts.
Churches of Scientology Disaster Response (CSDR), Operation BBQ Relief, National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD), and volunteers from local government agencies and schools collaborated on this effort.
Hurricane Melissa bore down on Jamaica in October 2025, and the response activities occurred in the weeks following the hurricane.
The food packing operations took place in a warehouse in Pinellas Park, Clearwater, Florida, with the meals being shipped to Jamaica from Florida airports and Miami ports.
Over 270,000 meals were shipped in boxes containing enough nutritious food to sustain a family of four for either three days (36 meals) or six days (72 meals).
CSDR Volunteer Ministers worked alongside other volunteers packing non-perishable food, assembling boxes, loading pallets, and coordinating logistics for shipping the meals to Jamaica.
The operation required extensive logistical planning including labeling and assembling boxes, transporting food, loading pallets, and coordinating both air transport via small planes and sea transport via cargo aircraft from Miami.
While immediate disaster response activities to Jamaica are winding down, hundreds of more volunteers will be needed to address the next phase of recovery and rebuilding of the destroyed areas.
More information about CSDR can be found at their website www.csdr-us.org, and they coordinate with government agencies and other NVOAD organizations through their 25 offices around the country.
Doyle Mills stated that collaboration - working together side-by-side - was key to the operation's success, along with extensive logistical planning and the hard work of all volunteers involved.
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