i mean our daughter took that advice and enjoyed it thoroughly and in the context of that i heard about the the effort to make a purchase of a community center got involved the past several years and he started his career in ethiopia in different areas from marketing in advertising to operations engineering maitland's and all the way hundred dinner break five hundred or so you very much five fifty five to be dinner for a five five fifty that you it is worth six hundred dollars who will give me six hundred dollars for this to six hundred dollars thank you very much six fifty six  for hours so it's a very particular location and what this gift is for this is for an eight birthday party or any kind of party for up to fifteen people for two hours and that includes pizza so it's fun for kids believe me this is the best way to exhaust your kids tools coffee and tea service and from what they told me this is almost impossible to get from ethiopia without destroying or breaking it and it comes in flocks of eight feet by i want to bring the box the box it but just the box alone is worth r r r r r asking by so i hope everybody a chance to see that very special guest is worth nine hundred dollars i want to started four hundred dollars and give me four hundred dollars for that for a nine hundred  program after school programs and there's been winter break programs sometimes the other people are my church and my school and i feel so lucky because i went to those continue to run the programs that it has to sue and her husband bats have two teenage boys and also a daughter that they adopted from ethiopia two thousand and seven and earlier this year the entire family went to ethiopia and set five weeks there they recently returned and from speaking with assume and hearing her stories at the center we know that the family is eagerly looking forward to going back  so you did leave room for my life not to educate you about the two programs that i've been able to give you a little more detail on and then invite you to join us in support of these programs in particular to make so those programs are the children you got here and the seniors program so since early last in last october the children to you program have served more than one hundred kids ages two to twenty one with a very young kids ages two to five that has been a morning saturday playgroup twenty one have been meeting once a week for leadership development in the past year the senior support program has provided weekly senior lunches for more than eighty elders on wednesdays every wednesday and every other sunday it's a time when seniors come together to share he'll socialize enough to learn something new so it's innate we're asking you to help streaming each of these programs and you can do that by reading your calendar and that will happen shortly but let me tell you a little bit about eight percent of the kids in the summer program most of those kids are not going to attend without that support we would like to expand a little leadership group from once a month to weekly and it adds to really exciting pieces a science improve the world tonight we invite you to do just that help build a strong future build a possibility for the youngest members of our community such as your my life and her friends and to provide others such as