Care economy activities and business model

About the organization:
Happy Helpers is a for-profit, women-led enteprise that provides domestic cleaning services to households and companies in Manila, Philippinnes. These services are provided through a team of locally trained and hired domestic workers. The service provided by Happy Helpers reduces the time spent by women on cleaning at home. It also increase recognition of work done by domestic workers. Happy Helpers has led to increase in income, skills and efficiency among domestic workers.

Activities in the care economy:
Provision of affordable services that provide care & domestic work

Stage of growth: Mass roll-out/Expansion

Type of services: Domestic services

Number of customers (2020): Between 1,000 to 5,000

Number of customers (2019): Between 1,000 to 5,000

Number of customers (2018): Between 1,000 to 5,000

Financials

Profitability status:
Financially profitable

Revenue USD (2020): Between 100,000 to 250,000

Revenue USD (2019): Between 100,000 to 250,000

Revenue USD (2018): Between 100,000 to 250,000

Pathways to impact

Challenge addressed:
Lack of affordable solutions to reduce amount of time spent on care and domestic work, Lack of / poor remuneration for care and domestic workers

Pathway to impact – 4 Rs: Reduce, Reward

Populations affected: Unpaid care workers, Unpaid domestic workers, Paid domestic workers

Number of people served (2020): Between 1,000 to 5,000

Number of people served (2019): Between 1,000 to 5,000

Number of people served (2019): Between 1,000 to 5,000