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BERTHA

“For me, it’s about empowerment,” explains Bertha Naranjo, full-time mother of four and full-tine worker-owner and co-founder of Eco-Care Professional Housecleaning, the cooperative Bertha developed with eight other women in Morgan Hill in 2001 with WAGES’ help. When WAGES last spoke with Bertha, she described the feelings of pride, dignity, and security that have accompanied her involvement in the co-op and with WAGES over the last 10 years. “As a business owner,” says Bertha, “you do [the work] with more passion because you know it is your business. And you want to see it succeed.”

Bertha’s passion for her work has inspired her to support and teach other women. As a New Member Trainer since 2004, Bertha has trained women entering WAGES’ cooperatives throughout the Bay Area on how to clean safely and effectively using alternatives to toxic chemicals. “I feel happy and fulfilled,” she says. “It is hard to be a mother, a wife, and to work, too, but now I see nothing is impossible.”