Welcome to part two of our chat with Ruth Cokerburns to mark World AIDS Day.

She is an incredible person if you haven't heard part one, go get it in the feed if not

here's part two and we're straight off we're talking about food.

There's a lot of food going on, you did amazing things with food and as the crowd of people

you're looking after grew bigger and bigger you were suddenly having to cater for huge amounts

of people right?

I was and I was even dumpster diving I mean I never thought I'd be dumpster diving but

I thought you know I had seen what they put in the dumpsters and the bread is all wrapped

up and pie and you know and the vegetables a lot of them were in plastic or bags of potatoes

and cartons of milk and cutting cheese and butter and all these wonderful things to

gain make them gain weight and so I would go and make my run of the I'd take my daughter

to the school and I go check I had three dumpsters that I really liked and I knew what

days they you know put things out and after a while they started leaving everything

outside the dumpster because they knew you were coming yeah yeah well there were people

who sort of silently helped you weren't there throughout this and there was a doctor I'd

love you to tell me more about who kind of because words sort of got out locally that you

were doing this and people were not impressed because well one thing that a lot of people

said to you was that you were endangering other people because you were going near you know

near people with AIDS and then you were going to spread it because no one knew where it was

coming from at that point we were actually at a funeral and I realized that chip I knew

somebody was coming in and bathing chip and shaving him in the mornings and I didn't know

who it was and he never said and I would mention like wow you look really good today and you

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