MIAMI GARDENS – Miami Gardens and the rapper Flo Rida are teaming up to aid victims of Hurricane Ian in the devastated community of Harlem Heights just north of Fort Myers.
CBS4’s Peter D’Oench spoke with Flo Rida at Miami Carol Metropolis Park at N.W. 32nd Ave. and 185th St., exactly where he is sponsoring a trailer that will convey hurricane relief supplies to the neighborhood of a lot less than 1,400 people and in which these supplies are being collected once more on Thursday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. before being sent to Harlem Heights.
Flo Rida stated, “We feel it is vital to give back in any shape or kind and this is the trailer that will be bringing supplies to people today likely by this devastation. I am blessed with my job and I have normally explained if everything takes place to folks I will give back again.”
Flo Rida stated he was devastated by the visuals of the destruction.
“Just seeing all these pictures on social media,” he stated, “It just blew me away.”
Miami Gardens Vice Mayor Reggie Leon, a single of the organizers of the effort and hard work, mentioned he heard from Jacquelyn McMiller with the Leon County NAACP and the web site acted promptly.
Leon mentioned “We want to mail non-perishable items and products like women’s cleanliness products and solutions and outfits for children and drinking water and all types of goods. It could be us up coming 7 days but now it is them and we desired to make guaranteed we keep on our help for our sister towns, primarily as the greatest African American metropolis in the condition, we wanted to make certain we clearly show our aid to cities that glimpse like us.”
Among the those donating bottled drinking water, Dr. Martha Johnson Rutledge of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority reported, “We bought these supplies for our hurricane and we do not have to have them and so we provide them to aid other individuals. It is really critical to enable out other communities. They ended up devastated.”
Gregory Burton also donated bottled h2o along with members of his Carol Metropolis Chiefs youth soccer crew.
He stated, “From our being familiar with of Hurricanes and our memory of Hurricane Andrew there wasn’t a lot-bottled drinking water then.”
CBS4 also spoke by Zoom with McMiller who explained “Harlem Heights has been decimated. This is a extremely disenfranchised neighborhood and it will be pretty complicated to bounce back again. The storm surge was tremendous and there was a enormous amount of destruction.”
She suggests Harlem Heights appreciates the help from Miami Gardens.
“They identified as me this early morning and I was so happy to converse to the persons there and so glad to know that assistance is on its way,” she mentioned.
