A restaurant on the North Side has received an outpouring of donations to support those impacted by Hurricane Melissa. On Thursday, the team at Real Real Jamaica started loading up those donations of essentials to ship directly overseas.

Jodi-Ann Crombie, one of the owners of Real Real Jamaica, has been collecting donations to support relief efforts after Hurricane Melissa hit the Caribbean island on Oct. 28. Damages were estimated at around $10 billion.

“I’m still in awe,” Crombie said. “How is it possible that we can wake up one morning, everything looks lush and green, and within a couple of days, it looks like a desert?”

Crombie’s nonprofit, Jamaican Renaissance Initiative, teamed up with Partners for Youth Foundation, based in Florida, to send the donations to Jamaica.

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