Breaking handout mentality one year after Hurricane Melissa

WHILE many victims of the devastating October 28, 2025 Hurricane Melissa are still looking for handouts to get their lives back together — especially in western Jamaica — a native of Westmoreland, Anna-Kay McIntosh- Richards, returned to her hometown on Saturday to equip residents with knowledge that can turn their situations around, if applied properly.

Through her brainchild, Goals Have No Limit Foundation, she organised a team of volunteers to not only cook food and distribute it in Waterworks, Westmoreland — as well as distribute care packages — but, importantly, to impart knowledge about entrepreneurship and also how to make money from a social media-based business.

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She brought in a team of young people from Kingston comprising her husband, brother, and church sisters to share “these very important messages to the people, who are still downtrodden and have found it difficult to rise above the devastation and trauma they faced last year”.