Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I just want to start by commenting on a comment that was made by one of my colleagues about how Canadians are not supportive of international development and contributions to that. As someone who's worked in the sector for most of my career, I'd just like to say that I believe Canadians are much further ahead than government in terms of their support. I would encourage all of the panellists who have joined us today to send in those polls that we all have access to that show the huge support Canadians have for international development and our commitment there.
We've heard so much about the impacts of COVID-19 and I think it's been very, very clearly articulated that the biggest impacts have been on girls, on displaced populations and on refugee populations, but also predominantly on girls. I'd like to ask Ms. Mirza if she could talk a little bit about how Plan is adapting the field programs for girls because of COVID-19?