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Jamaica is in recovery mode after Hurricane Melissa slammed into its shores, leaving communities across the country destroyed.

A nonprofit with ties to the Kansas City area survived the storm and is now helping others pick up the pieces.

Hurricane Melissa left much of Jamaica without power, internet and infrastructure. The storm reached winds of up to 185 miles per hour, making it the strongest in Jamaica's recent history and causing widespread devastation across the island.

Won by One to Jamaica's executive director explained that he had never experienced a hurricane before Melissa.

"The western portion of the island, they just lost pretty much everything," Bryan Fellers said. "It was devastating."

Kansas City native Fellers arrived in Harmons, Ja

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