The Vida Verde Co-Op supports Brazilian housecleaners in their professions while creating community and promoting healthy and environmentally friendly methods.

We are a team of 15 women and 1 man trained about cleaning alternatives that do not harm the environment and protect our and our clients’ health. We make cleaning products with natural ingredients and all products have labels listing the ingredients and providing instructions for use.

We are committed to protect the environment using non-toxic products and teaching other people how to use green cleaners, encouraging them to switch from toxic to green cleaning products. In the last four years, we have trained about 300 people in the Brazilian community and spread the word to the American society and other ethnic groups in the United States about safety cleaning.

We are also very concerned in improving our skills as professionals and citizens. Because of that, we have been participating in workshops, ESL and computer classes.