 September 2021 marks the second year of massive adjustment and change to teaching and learning in the education system due to the ongoing pandemic. These changes brought with it many challenges and access to devices for all students of all ages continue to be a sore point for education officials. However, one district is pleased to receive a generous donation of tablets for grade 6 students to enjoy and participate in online learning with ease. This morning I am very late as to what is happening here. We have Inves St. Lucia who have come to our rescue. Now we are online, school is online virtually and we have quite a number of students who are unable to go online because they do not have a device. So Inves St. Lucia has come to our rescue by donating ten devices to five schools. Fifty devices will be donated to the students of District 5. These students are from the Tirochet Combined School, the Monropo Combined School, the Larissus Combined School, the Richvo Combined School and the Olio Combined School. The district officer went on to see that these devices help with making learning comfortable for students. The lack of access to devices can pose to be very difficult and demotivating for students, especially the younger ones. This will make our students more comfortable. You know, in a home there is only one device and the parent who owns that device goes to school. So you can well imagine what happens when the parent leaves with that device. The children or the students have nothing to do and are unable to go online to be taught virtually. Over the last year, the Ministry of Education has pursued several undertakens to support the distributed online learning approach. Some of these include improving internet access at the school plant and providing MiFi devices to households to allow students to be connected and join the virtual classroom. Cumulatively thousands of ebooks, laptops and tablets have been distributed to schools through the Department of Education Islandwide. Mrs. St. Paul made a special appeal to Corporate St. Lucia to reach out and support the learning of children by assisting with the shortfall of access to devices. I am very grateful that Invest St. Lucia has seen the need to give back to the communities, to give back to students, to give to education, to push education forward. I am asking, I am praying, I am hoping that other entities will see the need to support education in St. Lucia, especially now that we are virtual. So I'm asking and I'm begging, I'm pleading with our corporate citizens to please come forward and assist the children of St. Lucia. The children are our future and without a future, we have no country. Instruction and learning comments for all educational and training institutions on Monday 13 September 2021 utilizing the distributed learning approach. Some 4000 laptops are presently being procured by government and these devices will be distributed to Form 1 and Form 2 students. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, I am Daniel Dubois reporting.