mr. sekino showed you, and so i really feel that this is a good process and it is a really good building, and it is a wonderful organization. and that this will be something that we will all be proud of having been a part of, thank you. >> i am a alumni parent with the little friends and they say that it takes a village to raise a child and that absolutely wrang true to me when we walked through the daos of nihonmachi little friends and my kids are in high school and college and they are in a family with great diversity and so my husband and i had pondered when they were younger how we were going to insure that they appreciated their rich cultural heritage and as soon as we walked through the doors we knew that we were going to be okay. as with the richness of san francisco there were kids from all different backgrounds, there were a multitude of languages being spoken and our kids made friends with young people with whom they continued to be friends now. we were friends with parents, who we continued to be friends with now. and through that process of being empowered by being part of lit