While the news of the ex­ten­sive flood­ing in some parts of Trinidad has been trag­ic, it has al­so brought out the best in peo­ple from all walks of life.

In an ef­fort to cap­ture this huge out­pour­ing of sup­port to those in need at this time and in or­der to pro­vide a sin­gle plat­form and ve­hi­cle for shar­ing crit­i­cal in­for­ma­tion, the Guardian Me­dia Group has cre­at­ed an ini­tia­tive called Flood of Re­lief.

It will be used to ed­u­cate and in­form the pub­lic on the re­sources avail­able to those af­fect­ed and open a chan­nel through which you can re­spond with sup­port which you may wish to give and the means of do­ing so.

Chair­man of the ANSA McAL Group of Com­pa­nies, Nor­man Sab­ga, has an­nounced a one mil­lion dol­lar ini­tial do­na­tion in goods to the ar­eas af­fect­ed.

More sup­port has al­so come through:

The Agos­ti­ni Group of Com­pa­nies

The Pres­tige Group of Com­pa­nies

Sagi­cor

Dairy Dairy

Col­in Sab­ga (Ice­land)

Fire­One Fire­works and Fine­line

Dis­trib­u­tors.

Had­co

Massy

Blue Wa­ters

Glob­al Brands (Piz­za Boys)

Email us your in­for­ma­tion at flood­relief@guardian.co.tt

vis­it http://www.guardian.co.tt/flood for re­al­time up­dates