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Samaritan’s Purse, led by Franklin Graham , has airlifted more than 38,000 pounds of emergency relief supplies to Jamaica after Category 5 Hurricane Melissa tore through the island, leaving widespread destruction and thousands homeless.

Less than 48 hours after Melissa made landfall with winds topping 185 mph, the North Carolina-based Christian relief organization deployed its Disaster Assistance Response Team and began unloading critical aid in Kingston.

"Hurricane Melissa has pummeled Jamaica and left tens of thousands of families in urgent need of help," Graham told Fox News Digital.

"Entire communities have been ripped apart, flooded and left in ruins. Many families just had their entire world disintegrate around them. We already have 38,000 pounds of relief suppl

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