When Category 5 Hurricane Melissa tore through the quaint island of Jamaica, the outcry for help reverberated across the globe. Fifty-four lives lost, nearly 52,000 without electricity. Areas like Saint Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Saint James, Trelawny, and Hanover were most affected. While Jamaicans across the globe were crushed under the weight of watching their homeland be torn through recklessly by nature’s wrath, one man refused to watch the suffering from the sidelines. For sprinter Asafa Powell, his people were his priority, even on his birthday.

Taking to his Instagram handle, the former Olympian shared a sequence of snapshots of himself on the ground doing the grunt work, committed to his efforts to help families who lost their homes to the hurricane. Captioning the post, he wrote,

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