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Who are not eligible. We believe that if it was allowed, and that would be a way of mending that safety net and it would really help the programs like saint anthonies thank you. We have 19 sites for senior meals in San Francisco. And in addition, we have out of about 500 bags of groceries a day, five days a week, with the chronic and critical illness. He touched on the link between hiv and Food Insecurity and i see that is why and the doctor will speak to this in more detail and just to know the studies that are showing the benefits of it and the organizations and that worked with the managed care organization. And they were able to demonstrate that 80 percent reduction in healthcare cost and less than 450 per month, per person. So if we can address the issues of food ensecurity for the people with hiv we have a lot of opportunities to address the healthcare costs. In additio ....
He touched on the link between hiv and Food Insecurity and i see that is why and the doctor will speak to this in more detail and just to know the studies that are showing the benefits of it and the organizations and that worked with the managed care organization. And they were able to demonstrate that 80 percent reduction in healthcare cost and less than 450 per month, per person. So if we can address the issues of food ensecurity for the people with hiv we have a lot of opportunities to address the healthcare costs. In addition in the program, just to support the discussion by my colleague and acquaintance, providing the meals at 19 sites in the city we are under the continued demand to increase the number of services at those sites and here in i want to thank them for the incredible work that the project does and it has been an honor to work with the meals on wheels and, the work that you do every day but very so much. We appr ....
To me all of the time and ask, if i was sitting on the school board or even, now, being a supervisor, people are saying, what about the plot of land and what can we do and into the community garden. And i know that we have some throughout the city and any good information for me. And the colleagues may that we actually get a map of the Community Gardens may be and maybe overly with the spots and so whatever reason it is difficult to get the super markets in place for certain neighborhoods. And are there any strategies, around, that effort, we talk about the bigger super markets coming in there and is there a way to maybe reduce the size of things so that it is more manageable for people that are more local . To run these things . And other than the chains . And more than that the city, can help with some of the issues that challenges the super markets, and i think that one of the challenges for it and the city that it does not ....
Consider one of these solutions that was proposed today and mainly the, and we do not accept the Government Funds and we are supported by the people who see the role in the community as being part of that network of support. And although, we think that it is important that the government does provide a safety net for the poor. And we appreciate support, and actually demand that your work in providing that safety net. Particularly the hungry are falling through the holes in that safety net. And yesterday, we can prove that again in our dining room. And it is the twenth of the month, and that is when we begin to see those people who have been able to make it up to that point in the month, but then, they have no longer the resources to provide the meals for their families. For their children. And themselves and end up using the facilities and others. Dr. Jones elaborated on those who are not eligible. We believe that if it was allo ....