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Revolution in Spring Cleaning: South County Women to Open
Santa Clara County's First Environmentally Safe Housecleaning
Cooperative on April 30, 2001!
4/21/01
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Morgan
Hill , CA - Just
in time to help you keep your Earth Day promises to reduce, reuse
and recycle, Eco-Care Professional Housecleaning is celebrating
the Grand Opening of its first environmentally safe cleaning business
on April 30, 2001 from 4:00 – 6:00 pm at the Learning and Loving
Education Center on Monterey Road in Morgan Hill.
Eco-Care
Professional Housecleaning, a women’s cooperative working to
protect the environment, is owned by nine low-income women from
Morgan Hill, Hollister and San Martin who have been working for
over a year to realize their dream of owning their own business.
In addition to preserving the environment, the founding vision of
Eco-Care Professional Housecleaning’s owners is to protect
their health and the health of their clients and to educate customers
about the benefits of environmentally safe cleaning.
The
nine founders of Eco-Care participated in training programs sponsored
by the Learning and Loving Education Center, which provides English
classes and computer instruction for women in the Morgan Hill area,
and Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security (WAGES), a non-profit
organization in Oakland that helps empower low-income women to start
their own businesses.
As
part of their extensive training, Eco-Care’s founders participated
in over 70 hours of intensive training in environmentally safe cleaning
methods. In addition, they created their own business plan and obtained
start-up loans from Lenders for Community Development, a consortium
of banks in San Jose.
Not
only does Eco-Care Professional Housecleaning represent a path to
economic self-sufficiency for its nine founders – the business
is also an opportunity for the women to experience the responsibilities
associated with ownership, to make decisions collectively, and to
learn new skills ranging from budgeting to marketing to conflict
resolution.
Eco-Care’s
owners, who are dedicated to the highest quality of service, use
a variety of environmentally friendly products such as baking soda,
white vinegar, and vegetable-based soaps. These products, when combined
with their specialized cleaning techniques, are at least, if not
more, effective than conventional cleaning methods which harm the
environment and the health of clients and housecleaners alike.
Eco-Care
Professional Housecleaning will offer service from South San Jose
to Gilroy from its base in downtown Morgan Hill. Housecleaners provide
all their own products and tools, perform move-in/move-out service,
and are committed to helping you come home to a clean house, protect
your family’s health, and preserve the environment. Eco-Care
would like to invite everyone from the community to its Grand Opening
celebration at the Learning and Loving Education Center to thank
you for your support.
Eco-Care
Professional Housecleaning: (408) 778-8445
Press
contact:
Layne Mosler
510-272-0564
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