 The teacher-training component under the Profritero Digital Education Pilot Programme in St. Lucia has been expanded beyond the initial 12 schools to equip as many educators at the primary school level as possible while working through pandemic conditions. The program is an initiative of the Spain-based Profritero Foundation and is being facilitated in St. Lucia and for other countries of the English-speaking Caribbean by the Organization of American States, OAS. Twelve schools were initially part of the pilot receiving technological equipment and educational content in addition to the teacher-training offered to all primary school teachers. Curriculum Specialists for Technology Integration in the Department of Education, Innovation and Gender Relations, German Anthony, says the training has been a great help since the return to in-class instruction. You find that the teachers can be a little more comfortable with using the equipment that was provided in the Profritero, and even if the schools do not have that specific equipment, the fact that the content can be integrated with other equipment means that the training is not lost. The content itself can be accessed online, it can be downloaded, but you don't need to have specifically the tablets donated by Profritero to be able to use the resources and that's the key thing. The Profritero equipment provides an intranet experience in a classroom. A laptop for the teacher comes with an access point that can be used to transmit learning content to tablets for students. Anthony says a teacher who has completed the training but does not have the equipment can still access the Profritero education content online. Representative of the OAS in St. Lucia, Lili Ching Soto says the pilot project was timely in bridging gaps for digital education in St. Lucia just when the pandemic began affecting the education sector. We received the equipment at the Ministry of Education of St. Lucia, coming straight from Spain, February 2020, March 2020, schools were closed. So it was so timely to have this project being rolled out right at the same time as the COVID pandemic was happening that it showed us the power of transformation, the need for transformation and it was absolutely key in moving forward together with the Ministry of Education of St. Lucia into trying to reduce the gap for digital education and also for children to have access to education because COVID was so disruptful and this initiative was part of the initiatives that the Ministry of Education was able to take on in order to be able to access those children and these children have access to this education that they were missing especially for the first months. Profritero Digital Education Program pilot will continue for our 2021 and is hoped to be fully expanded to other primary schools in 2022.