For eighteen years, Nelida Torres has served as a civil servant for New York City Government. Eights years in the New York City Police Department as a Police Administrative Assistant and Accounting Clerk, Seven years in the Human Resource Administration as a Fraud Investigator and three years in the the New York City Board of Education as a Substitute Teacher
Nelida Torres and her son relocated to Orlando, Florida to start a new life after divorcing her former spouse.
Nelida started to open her home to victims of domestic violence and learned that domestic violence does not discriminate. It occurs in all cultures and societies. It occurs among spouses, siblings, parents and their own biological children, (between any family members) and friends. Domestic violence comes in many forms; verbal, physical, emotional, spiritual, sexual and financial. Domestic Violence dehumanizes the individual and strips them from their will and freedom to be who we are created to be.
With the help of God, Nelida Torres who is legally blind and receives a pension from Social Security, opened “Our Sanctuary Corp.” a 501(c)3 Organization to shelter victims of domestic violence and took a Grant Writer course at Valencia College to raise funds to purchase a house to shelter these women with or without children where the women could begin to heal the body, soul, and spirit.
Today, Nelida Torres has helped women, and their children, get back on their feet and move out and live violence-free lives.
Boricua College, State of New York
Bachelor of Science
Nelida Torres
Date: June 26, 1987
Henry George School of Social Science, State of New York
Completed Courses in Applied Economics and Fundamental Economics
Nelida Torres
Dates: November, 2010 and June 2012
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