San Antonio South Side business owners host monthly life skills classes

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Folklores Coffee Houses' free life skills classes bring local experts in to share skills such as money management and home buying advice.

Local real estate agents Rudy and Natalie Salas lead a life skills class on home buying at Folklores Coffee House on Saturday.Growing up in a once underserved and now gentrified part of San Antonio inspired small business owners Tatu and Emily Herrera to use their coffeehouses as a tool to give back to their community.When it came to basic life skills, the couple say they,

Every month, the couple host a free life skills class they call “Es Tu Vida,” Spanish for “It’s Your Life,” at the Bustillos Drive location. The classes bring in local professionals to teach the kinds of basic skills the Herreras said they had to learn the hard way, on their own. As she and her husband taught the small group, Natalie Salas said, “I really wish they would teach this stuff in school.”

In the future, Rodriguez said he’d like the community to learn about other topics, like cryptocurrencies. Emily Herrera said educating her community about real estate is especially important because many families who have lived on the South Side for generations now find themselves unable to pay rising property taxes and are at risk of being forced out of their homes, Herrera said.

for handing out bags of food to the elderly on the South Side. The couple went door to door and gave neighbors food to add to their pantry.For example, in January, a woman knitted a blanket for a relative who had cancer and wanted to do the same for other cancer patients. When the Herreras heard, they

 

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