This week, Hurricane Melissa leveled entire communities in the Northern Caribbean, including Jamaica. The devastation motivated one Jamaican, who now lives in Nashville, to help where he can.

Taste of the Caribbean in Seattle's Central District plans to hold a fundraiser for those affected by the Category 5 storm that has killed dozens.

Out of many, one people. Kimisha Simpson says she’s confident that Jamaica’s national motto will rally the diaspora and others to help rebuild the island that was battered by Hurricane Melissa earlier this week.

Tulloch-Neil, a member of the Global Jamaica Diaspora Council, an organization working to build collaboration between Jamaicans worldwide, migrated from the Caribbean island over 30 years ago. She is one of about 9,300 Philadelphians who were born in Jamaica, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Jamaican resident Kimberley Dunkley Watkins still hasn’t heard from her brother, who lives in Montego Bay, since the Hurricane Melissa hit the island as a Category 5 storm. Watkins just returned to the island after a work trip.

The Category 5 storm ravaged western Jamaica and drenched the small community of New River, where residents were coping with a massive clean up. At least 19 people have died nationwide, officials said.

Jamaican business owner Derron Wilson has started a GoFundMe to support friends and family back home. He hasn't heard from them in days following a direct hit from Hurricane Melissa.

Drone footage captured how a Jamaican fishing village was reduced to rubble in damage caused by Hurricane Melissa. Aerial video of Alligator Pond from Wednesday (October 29) shows how boats, homes, and other buildings close to the coast were impacted after the category 5 storm made landfall with sustained winds of 185mph.

Jamaican resident and former Jamaican politician Lisa Hanna, who is stuck in Florida, joins Chris Jansing to share what she is hearing from friends and family back home about the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.

NBC News' Tom Llamas spoke to Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness about the current state of the county as Hurricane Melissa makes landfall and how residents are being impacted.

Caption: Relief efforts have begun in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa made landfall on Tuesday. In Ottawa, members of the local Jamaican community s

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in southwest Jamaica this week near the coastal town of Black River, which the government has described as “ground zero.”