 Welcome to the St. Lucia Red Cross, as we present to you a small donation of support for those persons who are on the front lines at the respiratory clinics, those who are providing care for persons who may be infected by COVID. As we make this donation on behalf of the Coca-Cola Foundation, it's an expression of our support and recognition for the efforts in contributing to the reduction of COVID. It's important that our frontliners are protected, and so on behalf of the team, I want to say good morning and welcome to today's ceremony. Without any further ado though, I would like to bring to you for Mr. Pierre, our president, as he gives a briefing on the whole process of why we are here today. Ever since COVID, or before COVID made landfall in St. Lucia, the St. Lucia Red Cross has been preparing itself for the eventuality. We have had four clearly defined steps as to what should be undertaken when COVID gets to St. Lucia. Suffice it to say, we have reached everyone, and now we are actually adding a fifth step, because we are recognizing that there is a specific development where many persons have lost their jobs, and as a result, more than giving them food and money, we are thinking of how could we put them to work. Now, suffice it to say, we waited long for specific triggers which would inform us as to what actions we should take. And once this trigger was pulled, we decided it was time for us to go to work. Having said that, we also recognized as frontline workers trained in any matter of disaster, whether the threat was health, hurricane or whatever, we knew exactly what steps should have been taken. We did speak with certain partners and there are certain persons who came knocking on our doors, as to wanting to do something in response and they would like the Red Cross to be the custodian to expedite whatever they wanted to do. As a result, the Coca-Cola Foundation did make some money available to us, so that we could purchase some things or a few materials in the fight against COVID. And today, I am extremely happy that through the efforts of the Coca-Cola Foundation and that of the Red Cross, we will be given to the Ministry of Health 30 gallons of hand sanitizer, 200 gallons of bleach, 1,000 face masks and 15,000 gloves to enable them in the fight against the COVID. The submission of Red Cross is also involved with the Ministry of Health and we are working more between hospitals and we have at least two or three ambulances, whichever we decide at a given time, working between hospitals to ensure that we seek to alleviate the human suffering and make this country a little safer for all involved. We have challenges. The horizon isn't clear based on what we know and judging from 1918, we hope and pray that there will not be a second round, although we have seen signs of this, and added to that the escalation in country. We have escaped unscathed seemingly so far and we hope that the same will obtain. So the pleasure is ours to welcome the representatives of the Ministry of Health and of course to give them this token to enable them in their work in the fight against COVID with the St. Lucia population. I thank you very much. It's encouraging that as an organization with an auxiliary role to support the public health authorities that we have been given or our opportunity has come forth where we could really show to the public what the role of the St. Lucia Red Cross really is. It's not just a situation where we're jumping on the bandwagon but it is part of our mandate to support the public health authorities. And so I bring to the front Miss Dr. Glensford Joseph as he speaks on behalf of the Ministry of Health. As a representative from the Ministry of Health and Wellness, we would like to first of all acknowledge the Director General of the St. Lucia Red Cross, the President of the St. Lucia Red Cross and all other personnel at this handing over ceremony. This St. Lucia Red Cross has been a very vital component of disaster, preparedness and response in St. Lucia and across the world. In St. Lucia, the Red Cross has been very instrumental in providing humanitarian services to the populace and visitors in times of need. During this COVID pandemic, we have found that the organization has been working very closely with the multiple agencies to ensure the safety and well-being of St. Lucia's population. And working with the Ministry of Health and Wellness has proven to be no exception. COVID-19 has uncovered several fractures within our society and it proves that with good cooperation, collaboration and interagency collaboration, we can all achieve what seemed to be very difficult and daunting. First line response personnel are faced with a significant challenge when we look at the manner COVID-19 is being transmitted and how it impacts everyone. Frontline workers, that is, healthcare professionals, non-health personnel who interact with COVID-19 suspects in cases. And I must say, when we think about non-health workers, even the persons who are responsible for cleaning of the very environment in which we work are very critical to our success in the management of COVID-19. With no doubt, the St. Lucia Red Cross sought fit to contribute again to this COVID-19 response through the donation of personal protective equipment that are going to be very vital to ensure our frontline workers are able to face the continuous and evolving threat of COVID-19. Moreover, as pointed out, we need a very clean environment in which we conduct our activities. And with this, the cleaning agent provided by the St. Lucia Red Cross is going to go a very long way in ensuring that our cleaners are able to provide us with the environment in which we can conduct our business of managing COVID-19. With this being said, the Ministry of Health and Wellness accepts and will utilize very effectively and efficiently the donation made by the St. Lucia Red Cross. That is, the face mask, the gloves, the hand sanitizers, and the cleaning agent in ensuring every level of our response is adequately prepared to manage COVID-19. Once again, from the Ministry of Health and Wellness, we say thank you to the St. Lucia Red Cross for your generous support of these items. Thank you. I want to say on behalf of the Coca-Cola Foundation and the St. Lucia Red Cross, a sincere thank you for making yourselves available to receive the gift, especially recognizing that you have already identified its usefulness. And we look forward to the continued collaboration between the Ministry of Health and the St. Lucia Red Cross, particularly because we are an organization who works on the field, we understand some of the issues that some of the communities are facing. And we hope that the collaboration will not just be in response to COVID, but it will be a continued process just as it has been in the past. Thank you once again.