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"SIMACT Legacy Foundation, Inc.**

Re: Humanitarian emergency following Hurricane Melissa

The recent passage of Hurricane Melissa has unleashed catastrophic devastation across the southern region of Haiti, directly facing Jamaica, where the powerful cyclone first made landfall. While Jamaica’s destruction is heartbreaking, Haiti — already battered by three consecutive years of paralyzing gang violence and near socio-economic collapse — now faces a compounded national tragedy.

With nearly twelve million people living within fragile infrastructure, chronic food insecurity, and the absence of functioning basic services, the flood damage to homes, regional roadways, farmland, and access points for supply delivery has pushed Haiti into a humanitarian emergency of historic proportions. Jamaica (population approx. 2.8 million) is projected to require nearly $20 billion USD to restore its tourism economy. Haiti (population approx. 12 million) will likely require equal or greater support — not to restart tourism — but to prevent hunger, shelter collapse, and mass displacement in a nation still under a “no-fly” restriction from the United States, further limiting rapid relief access.

In this moment, we cannot wait for perfect conditions, full political stability, or external rescue. The Haitian Diaspora — numerically the largest African-descended Diaspora community of the Caribbean — must assume a leadership role in the stabilization, protection, and long-term rebuilding of their homeland. Repeated cycles of devastation and abandonment cannot continue to define Haiti’s reality.

SIMACT Legacy Foundation, Inc. was formed for precisely this historic responsibility: to mobilize compassionate capital, technical expertise, and coordinated Diaspora action to support infrastructure rehabilitation, community protection, and long-term national rebuilding independent of the volatility in Port-au-Prince.

Haiti cannot afford to lose more time. The world cannot look away. And the Haitian Diaspora must now rise to meet its generation-defining obligation.

SIMACT Legacy Foundation, Inc.