my name is candace peerson, i started off in girls 2000 a few years ago, i am not going to tell you how many, because then you know my age. i am here to talk about the cut. last friday we received e-mail that we got like cut bad. and i am basically here to propose when i go out on maternity leave and come back, that all of this is situated and it's really hurtful because this is a program that i started out when i was a youth and to see that they may not have that when they get older like started working in that garden. and now i am a bookkeeper. i was able to go to san francisco state university because of the workers at girls 2000. now my mom wouldn't let college not an option but i have people on my back. and these girls have that now, but if they don't have the money, what are they going to do? and (inaudible) is telling me it's going to be okay, and deep down i don't know if we will be able to come back and have a program after april 31. and that's sad because school starts. like what are these girls going to do? some of them don't have money for school supplies or backpacks. they