WELCOME BACK
You showed up once. Stay until they’re home.
Relief is the first day. Recovery is every day after. See what staying looks like.
When the emergency made headlines, you answered. But getting people home takes far longer than the news cycle. We’re still on the ground — rebuilding homes, restoring livelihoods, and staying until communities can stand on their own. Here’s where you’ve been with us.
— STILL ON THE GROUND
Months after the storms left the news,
our teams haven’t.
— JAMAICA · HURRICANE MELISSA
Six months on, the recovery continues.
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in October 2025 as the strongest storm ever to directly hit Jamaica — 185 mph winds and roughly five million tons of debris, with whole communities cut off from clean water, power, and safe shelter. CORE is still there: tarping homes, clearing roads, and standing alongside community leaders like Stashauna, who first worked with us after Hurricane Beryl and reconnected this season while repairing her own home.
“I’m seeing a ray of hope because supplies have been coming in.”
Stashauna · Middle Quarters, Jamaica
— NORTH CAROLINA · HURRICANE HELENE
A year and half since Hurricane Helene
It’s been more than a year and a half since Hurricane Helene devastated communities across the Southeast, and CORE is still on the ground. We rebuilt an entire community of homes in Swannanoa, North Carolina by March 2025. It’s a powerful example of what’s possible when we come together—but there’s still more work to be done.
“And thank you to CORE who has been there from the start. I’m so thankful for them, because they find ways to help us get back home soon.”
Maria, Alan Campos resident
— HAITI · CLIMATE RESILIENCE
40,000 mangroves, and a coastline built to survive the next storm.
In February 2026, more than 50 workers spent ten days planting 40,000 mangroves at the mouth of Haiti’s Baraderes River. It’s part of an ecosystem-based adaptation effort we’ve run since 2023 with the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund — buffering coastlines against flooding, rebuilding the fisheries that feed families, and storing up to four times more carbon than tropical forest. This is what staying looks like: not one delivery, but years of work that make a community harder to knock down.
Max Saby · Program Manager
“This work represents a lot for us. I am not only speaking about us in Baraderes. It is part of the whole world.”
— SYRIA · IN THEIR OWN WORDS
What would it take for you to return to a home that tries to break you?
For Kinan, CORE’s Syria Manager, it’s the promise of waking up every morning to have a cup of coffee with his mom.
Kinan is an entrepreneur. An activist. A cook. A lifelong humanitarian. A Syrian exile.
He’s also CORE’s Syria Manager. After fleeing Syria to escape persecution, Kinan spent 13 years in France building a life most people could only dream of. He earned advanced degrees in international economics and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist fighting, held senior roles with international NGOs, built a network of friends and colleagues, opened a cafe, and indulged his love of art and culture.
But in October 2025, he left it all behind to reunite with his family and help shape his country’s future. Read More
