Rhon­dor Dowlat

As res­i­dents of Green­vale in La Hor­quet­ta con­tin­ue their clean up op­er­a­tions yes­ter­day many of them haven’t yet re­sumed their re­spec­tive nor­mal dai­ly rou­tine in­clud­ing cook­ing them­selves a warm meal.

The frus­trat­ed res­i­dents, how­ev­er, ex­pressed grate­ful­ness to rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Win­sie’s Trea­sured Hearts Foun­da­tion (WTHF) led by its Founder, Dr Win­sie-Ann Cuffie and oth­er vol­un­teers, in a flood re­lief ini­tia­tive yes­ter­day.

The WTHF team de­liv­ered hot meals, wa­ter, canned foods, es­sen­tial gro­ceries, house­hold items, toi­letries, torch lights, cloth­ing, ham­pers and blan­kets.

Among the items shared were books and oth­er sta­tionery to aid the chil­dren of af­fect­ed fam­i­lies in head­ing back to school.

“This was an in­te­gral part of the dri­ve as Win­sie’s Trea­sured Hearts Foun­da­tion’s pri­ma­ry ob­jec­tive is to work to­geth­er to sup­port chil­dren and the com­mu­ni­ty by pro­mot­ing and cre­at­ing av­enues to fos­ter the men­tal, psy­cho­log­i­cal and so­cial de­vel­op­ment of our pre­cious chil­dren to en­sure a sol­id foun­da­tion for suc­cess,” Cuffie said.

“This is done through var­i­ous mo­ti­va­tion­al and ed­u­ca­tion­al work­shops and pro­grammes, in ad­di­tion to fun-filled games and sport­ing events for chil­dren’s homes across Trinidad,” she added.

The oc­cu­pants of the Green­vale area were tru­ly grate­ful and thank­ful for the tremen­dous sup­port giv­en by the foun­da­tion.

Cuffie, in com­mend­ing the oth­er or­gan­i­sa­tions, com­mu­ni­ties and in­di­vid­u­als across the coun­try who are vis­it­ing and as­sist­ing af­fect­ed in­di­vid­u­als, said the will­ing­ness to sup­port and re­mark­able uni­ty they have seen thus far, is “out­stand­ing.”

The foun­da­tion promised to con­tin­ue to do their part and would like to en­cour­age every­one to do the same, “to help their broth­ers and sis­ters get back on their feet and live com­fort­ably again.”