St Lucia is backing an initiative to get regional artists to produce a CD which will be sold to raise funds for the victims of Hurricane Ivan in Grenada. The idea to produce the CD started out as a casual chat among friends and St Lucian musician Sally Elwin told BBC Caribbean Radio that several local performers are lending their support to the project. "I contacted the artistes and right away they agreed and said they're going for it, we have a lot of artistes on board," she said. "Sometimes people when there's a crisis don't know how to help and this is a way to do it." The project has received the support of mobile telecommunications provider AT&T Wireless. Self-help AT&T official Soria Skeete said the company is organising for groups of St Lucians to go to Grenada to assist in the community self-help format known to St Lucians as 'coudmain'. "It can't be about one person, it's got to be about everybody," she said. "The private sector can come together and if we can get as many people as we can to go down and help Grenada that's what we need to do." The initiative to help Grenada has also attracted the attention of the French embassy in St Lucia which has promised to get French Caribbean performers involved in the production of the CD to raise funds for the Grenada recovery effort. There are also plans to have all the artists involved in the CD project take part in a fund-raising concert in St Lucia. The St Lucian initiative comes after a similar project by a group of Trinidadian soca artistes who last week recorded a song for Grenada called Share The Spice, Show Some Love. The Trinidadian project has been backed by Antigua-based Caribbean Star Airline and features stars like Machel Montano, Destra Garcia and the rapso group 3 Canal. SOURCE: BBCCARIBBEAN.COM