Guardian Me­dia will be host­ing its Flood of Re­lief telethon to­day.

The telethon will be live from 5-9 pm on CNC3 tele­vi­sion, ra­dio sta­tions Akash Vani, Vibe 105.1 and Sangeet, as well as on­line.

This event will serve to fur­ther mo­bilise the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty to pro­vide Floods of Re­lief for those af­fect­ed by the re­cent flood­ing across Trinidad. View­ers, lis­ten­ers, and read­ers will be en­cour­aged to sup­port all ef­forts aimed at as­sist­ing those who have suf­fered prop­er­ty dam­age and were trau­ma­tised by the flood­ing.

The pub­lic is asked to con­tribute to re­lief fund ac­counts set up by Re­pub­lic Bank, Sco­tia­bank, RBC Roy­al Bank, JMMB Bank, and First Caribbean In­ter­na­tion­al. Jour­nal­ists from CNC3 and the T&T Guardian will pro­vide up­dates on the re­cov­ery ef­forts in worst-hit ar­eas dur­ing the dri­ve.

Guardian Me­dia per­son­al­i­ties from tele­vi­sion, ra­dio, and news­pa­per will serve as hosts of the telethon. Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the busi­ness and non-gov­ern­men­tal com­mu­ni­ty, who have been in the fore­front of ef­forts to help those in dis­tress, will be on hand to share their ex­pe­ri­ences and of­fer fur­ther help.

En­ter­tain­ment will be pro­vid­ed by a range of per­form­ers—from the gospel, parang, ca­lyp­so, chut­ney, steel­pan, and spo­ken word com­mu­ni­ties—show­cas­ing the rich mu­si­cal tra­di­tions of T&T. En­dorse­ments for the Floods of Re­lief telethon will al­so come from na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al en­ter­tain­ers.

Dur­ing the telethon, trib­utes will al­so be paid to Mighty Shad­ow, who died ear­li­er this week and was yes­ter­day ho­n­oured by the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies with a Doc­tor of Let­ters.

The telethon fol­lows up on the dri­ve launched just over one week ago by Guardian Me­dia to en­cour­age an im­me­di­ate re­sponse to the plight of those who were caught in the floods and suf­fered ex­ten­sive dam­age to their prop­er­ties. The ANSA McAL Group of Com­pa­nies, which in­cludes Guardian Me­dia, start­ed the cam­paign with a $1 mil­lion con­tri­bu­tion.

Since then, the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty has joined com­mu­ni­ty groups and in­di­vid­u­als in a mas­sive re­sponse to the needs of those made vul­ner­a­ble by the un­prece­dent­ed flood­ing that swept over cen­tral, east and south Trinidad—from Matelot to Ma­yaro and the Ca­roni Basin as well as El So­cor­ro south. Gov­ern­ment agen­cies al­so mo­bilised to pro­vide emer­gency re­lief.

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.

The plat­form pro­vides a re­al-time av­enue for the shar­ing of flood he­roes, health tips and traf­fic alerts. It al­so high­light­ed the good of our peo­ple.

We will con­tin­ue to use this medi­um 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.

To get help

Help is avail­able by writ­ing to flood­relief@guardian.co.tt

Fol­low the sto­ries of re­cov­ery at http://www.guardian.co.tt/flood

Fol­low the sto­ries of re­lief at http://www.cnc3.co.tt

Fol­low the re­lief ef­forts at www.http://www.guardian.co.tt

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

vis­it http://www.guardian.co.tt/flood for re­al-time up­dates