An older client came to me three months after brain surgery, certain he would never qualify again.†
I started with twenty borrowed dollars.
“When my husband and I met we had zero financial education. We know how to work hard and make money, but did not understand the strategies on why to keep it. I had $20 in my pocket — which I borrowed — and a beat up luggage, and ₱200,000 in debt when I arrived from the Philippines dreaming of a better life for me and my son.”
Years later, working in healthcare, I watched illness arrive too early for families who weren’t ready for it. That changed what I wanted to do with my life.
“We learned about financial literacy by becoming clients first. This is when I realized that my calling in teaching is not in classrooms but in making a difference in the lives of the many.”