Because no veteran should have to recover in a home that makes healing harder.
It all started when I saw a post online from a disabled veteran right here in Indian River County. She was in the middle of a serious medical crisis. Her plumbing had backed up, and raw sewage was coming through the shower. She was using a shower chair suspended above the sewer mess and grime left behind after the water was finally drained.
She wasn't asking for help to clean her house. She was asking for help with a plumbing issue, but I saw that she couldn’t physically clean it herself — I could feel the pain behind her words. So I reached out.
I offered to clean her shower free of charge. She kindly asked if she could pay for two extra hours. But when I arrived and saw what she was living in — the floors, the bathroom, the quiet reality of what she was enduring — I made a choice:
I wasn’t charging her a thing.
She cried. I cried. And in that moment, I knew this couldn’t stop with her.
Operation Clean Home was born that day — a mission to clean and care for the homes of disabled veterans in Indian River County who are struggling with illness, pain, or mobility loss from service-connected conditions.
Because how can anyone truly heal when the space around them is falling apart?
A clean home restores more than just order. It restores dignity, breath, and a sense of peace. It lifts the weight off the nervous system. It tells the body, you’re safe to heal here now.
And for our veterans — those who have already carried more than most — that kind of care should never be out of reach.
Through the support of monthly sponsors, I now clean homes for local veterans at no cost to them. Every $20, $40, or $80/month goes directly to cleaning time, supplies, and energy — all poured back into the homes of those who served.
This isn’t a charity. It’s a calling. A community mission. A way to quietly say, We see you. We thank you. Let us carry YOU now.
Want to help a veteran heal in peace? Become a monthly sponsor today.
Coastal Cleaning of Vero Beach is not a nonprofit entity. Sponsorships are not tax deductible.