Toronto-based organizations are rallying help for relief efforts and sending supplies to Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa caused devastation across the country.

Jason McDonald, chair of the BIA in Toronto’s Little Jamaica, is calling on the community to donate anything they can to help recovery efforts.

“It's devastating,” he told CBC Toronto on Wednesday. “A lot of community members have their family back home that are greatly impacted, greatly in need right now.”

Melissa made landfall in southwest Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane on Tuesday last week with wind speeds reaching 295 km/h. The hurricane has been blamed for at least 19 deaths in Jamaica and 31 in nearby Haiti.

McDonald’s family lives in Kingston, on the southeast coast of the island. He said even though the area was not a

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