. >> so, i began at westbay in 200 saechb. i had no idea what it would be like, but when i entered it was over 50 kids in a small room. we are so happy someone was there to help them and honesty, i share a story because that is really when i fell in love with the westbay. my name is carl la, the director of westbay filipino multiservice center. in the spring of 2007 at usf, we had to do community service hours and i was very last minute so the last to sign up for a place and the only place that didn't have volunteers was westbay. started as a volunteer, i knew nothing about the community. i just saw kids that were trying their best, growing up in a place that might just be filled with a lot of home lessness and violence and drug use, but we didn't care and wanted more and want to be in soma and help and see what i can do. 2007 when i started westbay didn't have a lot of funding. when we were there, honesty it is just like family fills up a space, i didn't realize how small it was. at the old space we had probably not more then