South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Sunday)
Stanley Steemer donates disinfection treatment to Literacy Coalition
Stanley Steemer of South Florida recently donated its services to the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County by providing its Boynton Beach headquarters with a new disinfection treatment.
Enabling the Literacy Coalition to resume its day-to-day operations, the new disinfectant is a waterbased antimicrobial that protects for 90 days and prevents deterioration of substances caused by mold and mildew.
With the donated service, the Literacy Coalition’s Americorp members were able to return to complete their training as well as staffers to prepare its volunteer tutors. The Literacy Coalition is a nonprofit organization committed to ensuring every resident in Palm Beach has the ability to read by promoting and achieving literacy.
Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County CEO Kristin Calder highlighted the importance of the donation, citing that without it the headquarters might be still closed.
“We have used Stanley Steemer services in the past for other services like carpet cleaning,” she said.
“So, we’ve been hearing more about this [disinfectant] and obviously looking for ways that could help our literacy center get back and up and running. We have a 12,000-squarefoot building. It’s used for education, training and outreach. So, it’s not just where we have our office space but it’s also where our Americorp members come in and do training.”
Knowing that Stanley
Steemer was offering the new treatment, Calder reached out to the cleaning service, hoping to learn if the product could help reopen the Boynton Beach headquarters. After getting in contact, Stanley Steemer made the decision to support the coalition’s cause and help the center reopen.
“I think the whole thing took less than an hour,” Calder said. “The guy comes in and he looks like he’s wearing a jetpack or something on his back and sprays everything. You can actually see it and, obviously, it disappears. I think the best part is they’re spraying in all the areas that they think are hightouch points and that the fact that this is basically a surface cleaning. So, it’s on everything our desks, door handles and any common spaces in our office.”