ST JAMES, Jamaica — Rainforest Caribbean has established a soup kitchen for residents of communities in St James that have been badly affected by Hurricane Melissa.

The soup kitchen opened on Saturday, November 1, at Catherine Hall, near the Rainforest headquarters and represents the company’s continued commitment to the well-being of the Jamaican people.

“We’re starting small as we are still waiting for our full team to come out. A lot of them were badly affected by the hurricane,” Rainforest Caribbean Director Ben Jardim told Observer Online.

“We’ll be reaching out to people in specific communities that were very badly affected, for example, Catherine Hall, nearby to our headquarters, and we’ll be handing out soup on Saturday, and we’ll be trying to do that throughout the week ahead,” Jardim said.

“We’re currently getting our staff organised, trying to do as much clean-up as possible, and we remain committed to feeding the nation,” he added.