HelpingHero Launch New Service To Dramatically Reduce The Cost Of Child Care
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 14 September 2006: With costs for child care and babysitting rising
steeply and demand outstripping supply, families are looking for new ways to solve
their child care crisis. The community solution of swapping services between families
has many benefits including having no direct costs but has been difficult to manage
in practice. Today HelpingHero launches a new service that makes the process of
community based service swapping easy and practical for all families.
Since the first formal babysitting co-op was created 20 years by the University Place
Babysitting Co-op near Seattle Washington the concept of community based childcare
has been adopted by countless families around the world. While it has solved the
problem of finding low cost, high trust, childcare there has always been a substantial
cost in member time to manage the process. HelpingHero automates the process and
opens up community based childcare to many more families.
Tracey Ah Hee (Managing Director of HelpingHero) noted that, "As a working mum
with two young children I was at the end of my tether trying to balance work, family
and household chores so I created HelpingHero.com to regain my work/life balance."
"A Babysitting coop is a great idea but I just didn’t have the time needed to
manage it so I decided to automate the process and HelpingHero was born. After creating
the basic babysitting co-op service, people asked us about other services and so
we expanded the service list to include pet sitting and house-sitting." continued
Ms. Ah Hee.
In launching this service HelpingHero has made it practical to make the switch to
community based childcare for many families, easing the burden of rising childcare
costs. HelpingHero handles the entire process making it easy to manage the entire
childcare process from booking to point transactions.