volunteers for the and a half years before ashley i was isolated and afraid but since this program i have floertd. i have come back and at times ashley was the only person in my life i could trust. and salesmen's she's the only person to come to my hospitalized she's helped me a lot of. thank you >> mr. roy. >> good afternoon supervisors my name is trio i'm the executive director at the program. it's a non-profit for hiv and cancer. i'll keep my remarks brief. we serve over 16 hundred people who are hiv positive. there's an expression that i hope sums things up. and that idea is what we call the difference between zero and one. and that applies to a lot of our clients but it is applying to all of us having the difference of one person by your side supporting i or having no one. and that difference is the best difference of all. so all the organizations we represent that difference in the lives of the hiv positive clients we serve and that's who's on behalf of we are speaking for today. thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm convene executive director of project ope