 The St. Lucia Development Bank has to date approved blended finance of up to $1.5 million to households and the business community, as part of interventions under the Economic Recovery and Resilience Plan, ERRP. Under its pillar to stimulate the economy, the government of St. Lucia has partnered with the SLDB to offer $8.4 million in loan and grant support to medium, small and micro enterprises with a focus on food security and adaptation of digital technologies and a five million working capital injection program. Managing Director Vincent Bolland indicates that the programs have joined tremendous response by the public. We totaled about a hundred and nineteen inquiries. We have generated applications of about $2.5 million. We have approvals of up to $1.5 million. And we are dispersing that, you know, as needed, as persons get all the information that we need, we're able to disperse. It's a broad spectrum. We've seen people come from the preschools. We've seen farmers. We've seen hairdressers. We've seen, you know, small restaurants, medium-sized restaurants. People who were able to collate their information and then come to us and say, listen, this is what I need. And they've received the grant as well as the small loan. And you're seeing that they're looking at working capital to be able to reposition their business, to pay some of their staff. Despite the immense reception by the public, the majority of the combined allocation of the two programs, $13.4 million, has yet to be taken up by households and the business community in the wake of the pandemic. Bolland explains a critical factor in pitting the application process. Persons don't have records readily available. OK. So we ask for, hey, the World Bank, certain conditions were put in. For instance, you had to show that you had a 30% reduction in your revenue. Yeah. Wow. You know, now most most businesses will tell you, yes. They feel a pinch. We had a drastic decline and we're saying, OK, well, let's see that. Let's see your management accounts. Now, it's for the smaller business. It's not that readily available. They have to either go and take their bank statements and then come up with, you know, the information to show, listen, this is what I earned before. And this is what has happened to me now. So we're still grappling with that and working through. And we have actually adopted an approach internally to try and see how best we can assist them in generating the information. SLDB's managing director, Vincent Bolland. The bank continues to welcome applications for the two programs.