Oprah Winfrey, speaking here on Monday, March 25, 2019, has announced she is donating $2 million to disaster relief efforts in Puerto Rico.

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Oprah Winfrey attended a performance of "Hamilton" in Puerto Rico in January. She says she was moved by the production to join in revitalization efforts on the island.Much of the island remains in ruin 18 months after Hurricane Maria.

Oprah Winfrey is donating $2 million to assist disaster relief efforts in Puerto Rico, which was left devastated by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017.

Half of the money will go to the , an organization co-founded by , according to a news release. The other $1 million will be given to the .

“The needs of Puerto Rico and our fellow American citizens following the tragic hurricanes are still very real, and the work that has already been done by the Hispanic Federation, Flamboyan Arts Fund and other organizations on and off the island is long from over,” Winfrey said in the release.

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Hurricane Irma passed slightly north of the U.S. territory on Sept. 6, 2017, but still and left 50,000 without water.

Two weeks later, . The storm killed nearly 3,000 people, destroyed the electrical grid and dumped up to 35 inches of rain that caused flooding and triggered mudslides that toppled homes and washed out bridges.

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Electricity was not .

Homes, hospitals, schools and roads , the New York Times reports. Thousands of rebuilding projects are on hold.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, onstage during a news conference on November 28, 2018, in Los Angeles, California, helped create the Flamboyan Arts Fund in Puerto Rico.

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Winfrey's donation to the Hispanic Foundation will help the group's. The foundation says it has "distributed millions of pounds of food, water and essentials to those most affected by the storm."

The money for the Flamboyan Arts Fund is meant "to preserve, amplify, and sustain the arts in Puerto Rico," according to the news release. The fund supports music, theater, visual arts, dance, literature and youth arts education.

The fund was created Miranda, his family and the Flamboyan Foundation. In January, Miranda took "Hamilton" to the island for a 23-performance run to raise money for the fund. Winfrey attended one of those performances.

“I was so moved by Lin-Manuel Miranda’s commitment to bring 'Hamilton' to Puerto Rico and support the community that served him growing up that I wanted to join in the revitalization efforts of an island so rich in culture, beauty, and heritage,” she said in the statement.