 Togo Foundation is no stranger to St. Lucia and St. Lucia. We are particularly proud that in the midst of the pandemic, between 2020 and February 2022, Togo Foundation has been able to make a number of significant donations to St. Lucia and St. Lucia. Last year, Togo shipped about, I think, 16,000 tons of food to St. Lucia that was distributed by various organizations in St. Lucia. And today we're particularly pleased to have Taj Weeks and Angela Weeks of Togo Foundation here with us, as well as Eustace Vitalis, who is no stranger to St. Lucia, to be able to facilitate this handover of personal protective equipment to the COVID Management Centre in St. Lucia. So my task really is just to say why we are here. I think this is a moment for the Chairman of the COVID Management Centre and for Taj and Angela from Togo Foundation. Mr. Cleeter Springer, Chairman of the COVID Management Centre, will also speak about who's here and how this PPE will be apportioned and why. Welcome to this small, symbolic, but very significant ceremony, if you want to put it that way. You know, many of us speak of love of our country. Some of us express that love and Taj and Angela Weeks and the Togo Foundation, in my opinion, embody are the embodiment of love of country. And I remember distinctly when I received his very cryptic text saying that he has some stuff, he has some stuff for us, and he wanted to send it to a source that he would be sure that it would get to the intended destination. And so I said to him that I had in mind very clearly the respiratory hospital and the bodily correctional facility as the two beneficiaries of his gesture. And I'm very pleased today to be able to join Taj and Angela to say thanks to them for the magnanimous gesture as Barbara has told you. This is nothing new for them. They've been doing this for many, many years and the Togo Foundation is world renowned for its generous work. This COVID pandemic has made a severe dent in government's finances. There's no way that a country like ours with its limited resources can endure a pandemic like this. And we were always going to be relying on support from well wishes around the world and governments have also chipped in and Taj, thank you, from the bottom of my heart. And I say this on behalf of all solutions. This equipment is going to be put to very good use, I can assure you. It is going to save lives. I feel of that I'm certain. So thanks again. I want to introduce now our chief hardworking. The need I say that everybody knows that she's hardworking. I don't know how she does it. I mean, it's 24 seven for her and I keep saying to her, you know, try to take some rest on the weekend. But she says, Mr. Springer, it's part of the job. And I have enormous respect and admiration for her and I want to invite Dr. Sharon Delma George to say a few words. I just want to indicate that this is our third year of managing COVID-19 in country. And with partners such as the Toko Foundation, I just want to express sincere gratitude for this very timely donation. It is going to go a very long way. The protection of our health care workers and our patients. And we have been working with the Baudelaire Correctional Facility as we have managed a few outbreaks at that facility. So I think the chair was very he gave very good advice when he indicated two of the very important areas that those personal protect the personal protective equipment that's going to be donated today to to go to. So I just want to really express gratitude on behalf of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Early Affairs. I know the PS and also I want to apologize on behalf of the Minister who's who's doing a recording for the for the new protocols this afternoon. He would have liked to to be here this afternoon, but is not able to to be. So just let me express gratitude and say thank you for the collaboration. I hope we can continue in various ways supporting because we don't know how long we will continue managing COVID. So thank you so much. On behalf of the management and staff of the Baudelaire Correctional Facility and the extension, the Ministry of Home Affairs, I would like to thank the Toco Foundation immensely for the contribution of PPE to the Baudelaire Correctional Facility. Most specifically, I would like to thank Mr. Taj Weeks and his wife for making that effort, that tremendous effort that even during the pandemic, they are able to go out and seek donations on behalf of the facility. It's not I know from the end, well, based on the reputation, they would have gotten some of these items for the facility. But in these times, it is it is a lot for one to give it is a lot for one to go out and to seek these donations and to get it within the quick time that they did. But let me just also thank Mr. Springer. I had a short conversation with Mr. Springer, the chair of the Covid Management Center. And soon after that conversation, he asked me, what is it that you all need? It was not a question of food or water. It was just what is it that you all need? And once I sent the list to him, he told me he will work on the list and one of our needs, one of our greatest needs at that time was the PPE. And he said he will make it happen. He assured me that it will happen and he kept me abreast. As to where these things were during that period. So I'd like to thank Mr. Springer immensely for his efforts and everybody else who worked together with him. It's been a while since I wanted to meet Mr. Weeks. He has passed very close to me, even while I was at the Boys Training Center. But finally, he has some connection now with Borderline. So now we will not let him go. He will be a part of us and we will be looking forward to his some some collaboration with him to see how best we can move this facility forward from where it is. One thing I must add before I leave is that this pandemic has hit prisons around the region in a very, very, very serious manner. For Borderline, we have 700 individuals working in a small environment. So you can well imagine when one person is infected, how this disease can spread among everybody else. So that has been our case. So we are now on our third or fourth wave right now and we are trying to manage it as best as possible. This set of items, this PPE that we have just received there will go a long, long way because up to last week it was struggling. So I'm hoping by Monday and Monday afternoon we can make the distributions as we ought to. But let me see. It is very timely and Mr. Weeks and your your wife and everybody else who contributed to it. Thank you very much. I have been keeping Dr. Belma very busy, as Mr. Terrence, Mr. Belma. Thank you so much. Let me thank the Ministry of Health and their team who work behind the scenes and everybody else who made that effort to see that this facility yet worth it. This is for thanks a lot. Thank you very much. We are truly happy to be here, more so for the sunshine done for all of this as we left with some serious snowfalling. So we're really happy. But but there's a level of sadness, though, that I have to speak about that somebody would have been standing behind us or between us or giving me two jokes in between. Valerie Albert is no longer here. And she was such a vital part of Tokyo. So I have to acknowledge that first before I do anything else. Thank you. Thank you. Valerie and I had lots of plans. We made lots of plans to do lots of things. And we were getting caught in agricultural projects and school projects. But Tokyo came and I'm happy we were able to pivot, you know, to be able to satisfy this need. But before I do all this, I have to acknowledge two people who are Elemon and Alex, who are friends of mine from Oregon, who too have a charity and are part of helping me do this. So I need to acknowledge them. All right. Hey, listen, covid is it everybody everywhere? And I'm really, really happy that we could augment what was happening on the ground by bringing these with us. We brought, I think, over 10,000 masks, over 20,000 shields, about 36,000 pairs of gloves and they have different assortments of goggles and mask. And I think we're happier to give than everybody is happy to receive. So on behalf of the team and Elemon Alex, we say, thank you.