Jennifer Lopez has donated $1 million (£741,100) to the victims of the devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico.
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The Democrat announced Thursday that he’ll travel to Puerto Rico with NY state emergency response officials to help recovery efforts on the island ravaged by Hurricane Maria.
Cuomo said the federal government isn’t doing enough to help Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico – which has already been struggling through a recession for over a decade – was decimated by Hurricane Maria as a Category 4 storm.
Lopez and New York Yankees great A-Rod, who each donated ,000 to help recovery efforts for Hurricane Harvey in Texas, have enlisted celebrity friends to help raise money and ship necessities like generators to the island. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) Francisco Santiago Torres and his wife, Suzette Vega Rozas, say they felt more comfortable being in the shelter than at their home in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
“My grandmother, who’s 94, who’s on oxygen, and lives on a remote part of the island, and there’s no communication there, and she needs medical assistance”, she said.
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The impact of Hurricane Maria caused significant damage to Puerto Rico’s infrastructure.
Mattis, and DOD should send the Navy, including the USNS Comfort, to Puerto Rico now.
On Friday, Lopez took to Instagram in order to urge her fans to help in any way they can, while revealing that she still hasn’t been able to get in touch with family members in Puerto Rico.
Meanwhile, officials say there is still a risk of flooding on a Puerto Rico river “due to the threat of a failure” of a dam.
The island’s power grid could take four-to-six months to fix.
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“It’s not only a physical material devastation, it’s also a psychological devastation”, said Angel Aloma, Executive Director of Food For The Poor, an International Relief Organization. If the aid response is not swift, the situation in Puerto Rico has all the makings of a major humanitarian crisis.
