Free housecleaning help is available for women undergoing chemotherapy

If you or someone you care about is struggling with cancer and going through chemo, you know that sometimes just getting out of bed takes every ounce of energy. So the last thing you can imagine doing is getting out a vacuum or scrubbing a shower.

Now you don’t have to – at least not if you’re a woman. Cleaning for a Reason provides free housecleaning service once each month for four months while a patient is in treatment. Women receiving chemo can sign up on the organization’s website at cleaningforareason.org.  (I’m not sure why it’s only available to women. I guess they assume we do all the cleaning.)

After someone at CfaR contacts the patient’s doctor to confirm that chemo is underway, a local cleaning service is contacted. All participating services are insured and/or bonded, and all do background checks on employees.

CfaR currently has more than 800 cleaning service partners all across the U.S. and Canada.

This is a great service that would be a huge relief for any woman struggling with chemo, so please forward this message to everyone you know so we can help get the word out about Cleaning for a Reason.