Three members of the former Southeastern Wisconsin Sanitary Supply Association (SEWSSA) resurrected Operation Clean Sweep to clean Repairers of the Breach, Milwaukee’s only daytime refuge and resource center.

In May, roughly 35 employees from jan/san distributors NASSCO and San-A-Care, along with Sanitary Maintenance magazine washed windows and walls, cleaned bathrooms, scrubbed baseboards, mopped floors and more.

"Heidi Kucharski and Steve Wehse from NASSCO did an excellent job of organizing the event," says Mike Griffin, vice president of sales for San-A-Care, Waukesha. "Our volunteers had fun and we enjoyed giving a little time and talent to a very worthy cause."

Repairers of the Breach is a non-profit daytime shelter that helps any man or woman that is homeless by encouraging them to be active members of a community of homeless persons that are in transition to the mainstream. It offers free resources such as a medical clinic, an adult classroom to help occupants earn their G.E.D and/or to gain citizenship, an employment assistant center to help them with job applications and online job searches,  homeless veterans initiatives, appropriate clothing for all seasons and job interviewing, showers, and healthy breakfast and lunch six days a week.

The three Wisconsin companies also donated blankets, sleeping bags and clothing. In addition, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Pinnacle Sales & Marketing Inc., APEX and SCA North America Tissue Division helped the cause by donating cleaning products.