b'More than doubling your lending volume in just one calendar year may sound like a Herculean task, yet that is exactly what MEDAs Fondo Adelante CDFI achieved. All told, our team assisted with 189 20210%-interest pandemic-response loans totaling $6.4M lent in 2021 and with $10M in loans to our communitys most vulnerable small business owners since the start of the crisis in March 2020. Eighty-PANDEMICeight percent of these loans, which averaged $33,810, went to Latino, low-income and/or ITIN-holder small business owners.RESPONSE This is just one aspect of MEDAs pandemic response to a commu-nity with urgent needs. A perfect storm of most community members working as essential workers and living in overcrowded conditions Emergency led to Latinos being disproportionately affected by COVID-19. In 2021 Latinos still averaged 3040% of positive cases despite being work continuesjust 15% of San Franciscos population. Thats why in 2021 the City of San Francisco once again came to MEDA, with our continuing to disburse Right to Recover Funds in partnership with the San Fran-as we lookciscoDepartmentofPublicHealth.MEDAdeployed$2.5Mto 1,950 community members who fell ill to the virus, ensuring our forward neighbors had guaranteed income so they could quarantine. This is a matter of equity: Nobody should have to choose their livelihood over their life.In fact, many in the Latino and immigrant community had lost their jobs during the crisis. From back-of-house restaurant workers to office cleaners, work was hard to find when the pandemic hit and a lightswitch was turned off on the economy. While job prospects improved in 2021 and MEDA connected community members to 12'