You know, we talk about the homeless and we have this big broad brush.

But these are people like, those people have names.

When I was first opened, one of the shelters here, there was a little girl who was just learning how to write her name in the shelter.

And, we got the family into housing.

She had never been housed.

And she's in kindergarten, so she's five at this time, and she comes in, to give me a thank you card and the thank you note when they were going to housing, it was just a sticky note, and it just said Julia.

Julia.

Julia.

Julia.

Julia.

Julia.

Julia.

Julia.

Because she only knew how to write her name.

She wanted to say more, but that's all she knew how to write.

And and it reminds me of two things.

One, every number that we that we put up there.

Every statistic that's a person.

And in that person has a name.

And then the second thing for the population that I serve, particularly the children, like they don't have a voice.

And so they can't say what they what they want to say.

And so I it's up to all of us.

And a lot of the homeless don't have a voice in our community, like they're not in this room right now.

And so we have to be the voice for them.

In, in really provide the services that they need, not the things that we think that they need, but what they actually need.

So.