"I would ask the International Community/Donors/Business Partners to be in solidarity with SMEs in these challenging times. SMEs have long-term loans from banks; therefore, if the exporting contracts are affected in any way, companies may go out of business. The International Community should look at how SMEs can get financial relief or any support to stay in business, even when the Covid-19 situation worsens.
Also, as we are entering the coffee harvesting and processing period, business partners can support SMEs that work directly with farmers to distribute masks, soap/hand sanitizers, hand-wash stations to wet mills to allow harvesting coffee processing to continue while following sanitary and social distancing measures."