Oh my goodness,
I love teaching at Camillus.
Finances are truly important
and oftentimes
very overwhelming to many people.
So, it's very important to speak to people
in their native language.
Our mission is really to provide services
to the most vulnerable of our community:
people who are poor,
who are hungry and who are homeless.
We do offer some of these classes,
and in particular the financial literacy classes,
in English and in Spanish.
The fact that TD Bank
is able to accommodate that is amazing
and incredibly important.
It's great to see our store managers
come in to teach these financial education classes,
because everybody comes in
to make a presentation
with their own story.
At a young age,
my family had the need to leave Cuba,
so we moved to Spain
when I was seven years old.
It was the holidays,
and we really didn't have much.
So we had the opportunity to go to a place
very similar to Camillus House.
And not only did they serve lunch,
but they also made it a point
to give every child a toy.
It's something
that I still carry with myself,
and I want to be that difference
for someone else.
Lisette brings
a lot of passion to financial education.
It's remarkable how she can really connect
with the audience that she's speaking to.
I met someone there that had
had a business in his country,
but was forced to leave.
And so he had the opportunity
not only to learn, but also to connect
with me on a human level,
telling me what his path was like.
Because he felt like
he was someone in his country,
and all of a sudden he finds himself
here, without a home.
So facilitating this in his language
really helps him find himself again
and become the man that he always
was--in a different country.
It goes beyond the financial education.
Just knowing that I'm giving back,
that I'm giving hope to someone
that desperately needs it.
So it's an emotional connection, and it's
great to give back from the heart.