 On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO is celebrating this year's annual World Food Day. On the theme, grow, nourish, sustain, together, our actions are our future, calls to celebrate our food heroes, including farmers, workers along the food chain, food banks, or others who together are making sure that food continues to make its way from farms to our tables. The COVID-19 global health crisis has also affected small countries like the Lees. It is time to reflect on things that we truly cherish and our most basic needs. Without access to food, there can be no stable democracy, no prosperity, no future. Food is the essence of life and the bedrock of our communities. Los Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos de Nago Bank Cooperative have been named food heroes for adapting preventative measures during this world crisis and for supplying the country with basic needs. Los Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos de Nago Bank Cooperative is located in Nago Bank, a small community on the northeast of the Belize district facing the beautiful Caribbean Sea. Los Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos de Nago Bank Cooperative started as a group in 2010 and was registered as a cooperative in 2013. At the beginning of being registered, we were a total of 22 people, 5 women and 17 men. Los Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos de Nago Bank Cooperative is located in Nago Bank, a small community on the northeast of the Belize district facing the beautiful Caribbean Sea. Los Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos de Nago Bank Cooperative is located in Nago Bank, here to avoid any contagion. We cannot do it as before as when we went to the market to sell, now we do it differently. We have a special person that we send to the market with the necessary measures so that that person cannot have contagion from the pandemic. For me, being a farmer in these times and as always has been a great responsibility because we farmers have to make an effort every day so that the food reaches especially to our families and then also supply food vegetables to other people in the country. We feel very happy as farmers, very happy to be able to do this important part for the country and for the people. We feel like heroes knowing that in the city for example where you cannot grow tomato, sweet pepper or watermelon that these products can reach them. The situation of this pandemic has affected the whole world at this time. It's difficult for us. For us it has been somewhat a shocking experience because of the pandemic. We have observed that the sales area decreased. Before the pandemic everything was fine. It can be said because we had enough product, enough place to expand it and where to distribute it. It was a radical change for all in the sales area, very low in some areas. Customers argue from us and now we send it directly. We pack it and send it by barge or boat so that the people no longer have the risk of leaving their homes and having direct contact with us. To avoid infecting ourselves or others, we have a specific place where we pack the product. My dream in 5 to 10 years is that this gallery we are in right now is converted into a packing shed facility where we can process our products. The desire of us as a group is that we can form a company and establish the business so that we can have better opportunities not only for the group but also for our children. Our dream in 4 to 5 years is in the area of marketing. Have more access to technology, be able to give better customer service, that the people from different places get to know about us and the quality of product that we handle and increase sales to be able to have more access to finance so we are able to produce more.