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Spring cleaning looms in the near future, and Delta Zeta’s members are offering a maid service to raise money and take the load off students and dirty houses.
For $20 per hour, the sorority will clean common areas of houses, including living rooms, dining rooms and kitchens. For $30 dollars an hour, they will clean bathrooms and basements.
“We originally came up with the idea of Delta Zeta maid service to help fraternity brothers clean up their house after a busy weekend or before a big meeting,” said first-year Delta Zeta member Danni Perratto. “We then realized that there was an entirely different demographic that we could reach on campus: professors and faculty.”
“It is also a very busy time of year, and we want to help people keep their houses clean. We are also promoting a national campaign, ‘Pink Goes Green,’ and we want to help keep the earth clean by doing things economically,” said chapter President Andrea McLaughlin.
The Delta Zetas will not clean personal spaces, including bedrooms.
“It would be invasive, because there’s a lot of personal items, you know, maybe dirty underwear or something on the floor. We don’t want to have to work around people’s personal items, so common areas are what we would do,” said second-year Delta Zeta member Elaina Branco.
A portion of the money raised will go to the chapter’s philanthropic fund and the rest toward attending a national Delta Zeta convention.
“As a chapter, we hope to raise enough money so that $19.02 will be donated in each of our 55 sisters’ names to our national philanthropy: the 1902 Loyalty Circle. The 1902 Loyalty Circle is the individual undergraduate giving society of the Delta Zeta Foundation Annual Fund Campaign named in honor of our founding year,” Perratto said.
Money from the 1902 fund helps the sorority with scholarships and leadership, scholastic and philanthropic needs.
“We are also trying to raise money for us to go to Region Two, which is a national conference for Delta Zetas,” said second-year Delta Zeta member Jessica Mayo.
The conference is scheduled for late March at the University of Connecticut.
The Delta Zetas will be cleaning a fraternity house this weekend. They send a specific number of maids depending on the size of the project.
“This weekend, we’re having 10 people go. To a fraternity house, we would send around 20 people, but it depends on what we’re cleaning,” Branco said.
While the maid service is still in the initial stages, the sorority members anticipate success.
“As a chapter, we strive for success in all that we do,” said Perratto. “If we get the turnout we are expecting, not only will [we] be donating over $1,000 to our philanthropy, we’ll be given the opportunity to help aid our sisters, and not only our sisters here in Maine, but our sisters across the nation and the globe.”
Delta Zeta’s members hope the business will flourish and become one of their signature projects.
“We want this to be an ongoing thing and to be known for this every year, pending its success,” Mayo said.
“Every chapter on the UMaine campus does fundraising of sorts, but Delta Zeta is the only chapter I know of that is ready and willing to do the dirty work,” Perrato said.
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