When a natural disaster of Hurricane Melissa ’s devastating magnitude strikes, it can be difficult to know how best to help: The Category 5 hurricane has already killed at least 25 people in Haiti, three people in Jamaica, and one in the Dominican Republic, causing major infrastructural damage after making landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday and moving off Cuba’s northern coast on Wednesday morning. That day, Dana Morris Dixon, Jamaica’s information minister, briefed the New York Times on the state of things on the island, saying: “We know that it’s western Jamaica that has the brunt of the impact, and central Jamaica had a lot of damage, a lot of flooding.”

Below, find five organizations working tirelessly to provide assistance to those displaced or otherwise affected by Hurricane Mel

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