Monroe Everyday Heroes: The Maids 'Cleaning for a Reason'

Do you know someone making a difference in our community? Patch wants to tell their story in a new series we’re calling “Everyday Heroes.” We are looking to share inspirational and uplifting stories of people who work to change others’ lives for the better.

Today’s nominee was sent in by a family who wishes to remain anonymous as a family member undergoes treatment for cancer.

Name of Everyday Heroes

• Melissa Joyce and Kristi Schoff, owners of The Maids / Cleaning for a Reason, 72 Gray’s Bridge Road in Brookfield, and their team of maids.

Relationship to the nominee

• Client

Details of good work

• “Melissa, Kristi and their team help women who are undergoing cancer treatment and can’t clean their homes themselves due to their physical condition. Cleaning for a Reason helps women like me focus on my health while The Maids/Cleaning for a Reason helps take away the work, worry and stress of cleaning my home. The service is all free of charge using maids who have graciously and generously volunteered their time and labor.”
  

Why do you feel is this person is an Everyday Hero?

• “This team goes above and beyond to help women like me while we fight a hard battle, physically, mentally and emotionally. They do this hard work all out of the goodness of their hearts and do this for 4 patients at a time, once a month. Because my treatments are for 4 months this is the perfect amount of time to not have to worry about having my home clean. When people go through chemo their immune systems are weak because their white blood cell counts are down so having a cleaning person come in is such a huge blessing and sets my mind at ease that my house will be a clean environment for me while I recover.”

Photo: Kristi Schoff (right), Operations Manager, and Melissa Joyce (left),Customer Service/Marketing Manager, are the dynamic sister duo that run The Maids. Their territory includes Newtown, Monroe, Shelton, Bethel, Brookfield, Danbury, Redding and Ridgefield. 203-740-0066, www.maids.com/68

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Do you know someone making a difference in the community? Maybe it’s a neighbor who volunteers at the local soup kitchen, or a student who reads to the elderly at a nursing home. Patch wants to tell their story. We are looking to share inspirational and uplifting stories of people who work to change others’ lives for the better.

Please answer the questions below and email your answers, along with a photo, to:

wendy.mitchell@patch.com

1. Name of Everyday Hero
2. Your relationship to the nominee
3. Details of good work done or being done
4. Why do you feel is this person an Everyday Hero?

Let’s thank those kind-hearted people who work so hard to make our town a better place by giving them some recognition.