But, you know, it's not the end of the story, I don't think. Right. Yeah. I mean, we do have these giant, ginormous industries here. And so then what else have we done? Oh, and also, we're currently exploring because we used to have the federation at our site. And, you know, I would ask you not to put all these negative things, but I'm just into a conversation. But so but you can say we are we are not sure we, we are serving all the Jews we need to serve in our local community. Now, with that said, I feel, and maybe I'm reading the end of your novel, I don't know, but I'm just going to say this my thinking has evolved over my years in in volunteer life, where I used to think our most important thing was to save the Jewish community, engage Jews. I still think it's important, don't get me wrong. But I do think that we are-we are tapped on the shoulder. We are the chosen people because it's our-it's our job to not just to help Jews, but non-Jews. And so my work over the last couple of years has reflected that, both at the JFS and the JDC. I was chair of a committee, which is a pretty big committee to do work with our non-Jewish, non-Jewish people. So we do a lot. JDC does a lot of disaster relief. So we worked in tsunami land, we worked in Haiti, we worked most recently in Mexico. And where there are Jews, we work in Jewish community to help everyone. We worked in Ecuador and Mexico with the Jewish communities and, um, but in places like Nepal and, um, Tsunami land, we didn't and we accessed help from USAID, Clinton, Bush and Tsunami land and other organizations. And our newest project is really cool because I still love Israel, even though I'm kind of left on Israel, but I still love it. Not such a fan of Bebe. You don't have to put that in. Um, but, uh, we are partnering with the Israeli government who wants a foothold in Africa in terms of trade and relationships and a better profile and some key philanthropists and the government of Ethiopia. Because don't forget, JDC was in Ethiopia sending out all those Jews to go to Israel and the United States. Some of them made it here. But, um, and we're doing something called Tikkun Olam ventures Tov. We call it. And we. I just got back from Ethiopia. It's really cool. So we, um, we use Israeli high tech, which is so flippin unbelievable in terms of, uh, irrigation drip. They're the kings of drip irrigation, hybrid seeds and fertilization. We've worked with some philanthropists who have given JDC a ton of cash and with Ethiopians, and we are setting up what we started with, seven farms. Because don't forget, Ethiopia, like other countries in Africa, are experience really horrible drought. But Ethiopia is lucky enough to have very fertile land. But a lot of these very primitive farmers only get one yield out of their soil. And hopefully with us they'll get 3 to 4, and they're growing tomatoes, onions and peppers, and we're going to help them bring them to market, not just to feed their communities, but to hopefully export. So they and they, they can tap into these banks, these Ethiopian, thess Ethiopian banks is giving loans to them so they can reinvest in their property. So it's micro-lending with the help of the Israeli government and the help of certain philanthropists. So that's my latest project.
