Yussuf and Tarek Aleem usually spend their days representing personal injury clients, but watching news coverage of Hurricane Dorian’s devastation of the Bahamas last week prompted them to take an unusually direct action to help.
Instead of donating to a relief agency, the partners in The Aleem Firm contacted friends in the legal and medical communities to support a spontaneous mission to deliver supplies to the ravaged nation off the coast of Florida. They extended their trip when they used their private jet to shuttle materials and people working for nongovernmental agencies from Nassau, which was suffered relatively light damage, to Freeport on Grand Bahama, which took a much harder hit.
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