Former Green Beret Jeremy Locke returned to Kingston, Jamaica, around 6 a.m. on Nov. 6, in an ongoing effort to bring humanitarian aid to survivors of Hurricane Melissa.
The co-founder and COO of Aerial Recovery and his team of volunteers spent the entire night blazing a trail through the mountainous, hurricane-ravaged parishes of western Jamaica to establish contact and deliver drinking water to a small convent of nuns and a home for children with special needs.
The convent at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral—operated by three sisters and a mother superior named Mother Joy—had lost its roof and was serving as a clinic. Locke and his team pushed through previously impassable roads to deliver two pallets of water and assess the situation. They made contact with the convent at around 11:30 p.m., and then moved on to the hilltop West Haven Children’s Home for the Disabled, which housed 96 kids….