“My name is Clement Noll and I am writing this to give thanks to Torben Nielsen, founder of the RecycleKIDS Foundation Torben and Ali Sasso who gave me an opportunity to work for Mosquito Joe at a time when I was flat broke, thousands of dollars in credit card debt, no reliable transportation, living in a halfway house, thirty days sober from a devastating seven year drug and alcohol addiction, and uncertain of whether I was even going to be able to stay in South Florida due to the felony probation I was on in Missouri.
I started working for them and two weeks later I had to return home to check in with my probation officer. I did not know if I was even going to be able to come back, but they told me that if I did return, I would be able to come back to work for them. Luckily, within four days of being home in Missouri, I was released from probation. I quickly returned to my halfway house in South Florida. I hit the ground running with Mosquito Joe. They provided me a compensation for my work that enabled me to slowly crawl out from under almost $10,000 in credit card and other miscellaneous debt that I had accrued. Torben taught me life lessons, pushed me to hold myself to a higher standard, in and outside of work, and provided me with an opportunity to move up in the company. After 5 months Torben purchased a home and gave me the chance to be the very first tenant there, which for me, was an opportunity to take another step in the right direction. I lived there for a year, worked for Torben for a year and grew a lot through the time I was employed for them. I am writing this after being separated from the company for almost two years now as I decided to get into the health insurance industry. The landscape of my life now, compared to what it was prior to working for Torben, is almost unrecognizable. I owe a large portion of my growing process early on in South Florida to the care and support that was given to me from Torben, Ali Sasso and the RecycleKIDS Foundation.”