The heavy rains in Chennai left several damages to the houses. A leading home service provider Housejoy, in association with Radio city, is helpingthe flood victims in the city by setting up free services camp in the flood affected areas this week. The services are offered in the largely affected areas – Madipakkam, Velachery, Pallikaranai, Medavakkam, Adyar, Kotturpuram, Valasaravakkam.
Housejoy is offering services like electrical check-up, plumbing service, refrigerator and washing machine check-up, mosquito control and dewatering. One has to just give a missed call to 8655019960 to book for inspection.
Housejoy said it took up the initiative to help the common household of Chennai and have put 30 volunteer workmen on duty in the said areas.
“We could not come out of the house for the last two days as it was filled with water. Thanks to the Housejoy and Radio City team for helping us in this time of distressâ€, Nagammal, a customer at Pallikaranai who used the Housejoy service.
“Since the rain water was stagnant outside, there were lot of mosquitoes. Now, Housejoy has done a free mosquito control for us. We and our children are free from mosquito trouble now. A very good initiative!†– SuteeshKumari, another customer at Madipakkam who availed for Housejoy service.
In recent years, technology companies like Alphabet Inc.-owned Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. have launched services to assist during humanitarian crises, from disease epidemics to hurricanes and massive earthquakes
Housejoy is backed by venture-capital firms Matrix Partners.
AboutHousejoy
Housejoy is the leading provider in the home services space. They are pioneers in providing high-quality on demand residential services, supported by a team of dynamic, capable and trusted professionals. Housejoy launched in January 2015 to provide an aggregation of services to customers ensuring punctuality, quality and reliability. They perform a wide variety of services ranging from maintenance and home repairs to high quality plumbing, electrical and computer repairs. Housejoy additionally offers specialized services in beauty and in-house bridal make-up and are expanding their service portfolio. Within a short time, Housejoy is operational in 11 cities across the nation and has raised 4 $Million funding in series A from Matrix Partners.
