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December 15 2025
Volunteers offer grooming care to Hurricane Melissa victims
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United4GoodJA volunteers provide grooming services to a young shelter resident in Westmoreland.
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left: A United4GoodJA volunteer gives a shelter resident a trim and shave.
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A United4GoodJA volunteer styles the hair of a young shelter resident in Westmoreland.
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ABOVE: A United4GoodJA volunteer styles the hair of a shelter
resident in Westmoreland.
It started with a simple request for shampoo from a Hurricane Melissa victim who was forced to flee to the shelter at Petersfield High School in Westmoreland. Four women made their way to the parish in the aftermath of the devastating Category 5 hurricane that made landfall on October 28, destroying Jamaica’s south-central and southwestern coasts, dismantling the economic, security and education systems along the coastal areas from Clarendon to St James.
