Cleaning services mop up jobs

Ready to serve: A domestic helper cleaning her agency’s office before being assigned to work at a home in this filepic.

PETALING JAYA: Desperate families looking for long term stay-in maids have turned to cleaning agencies while waiting for negotiations with Indonesia to be sorted out.

Housewife Norfatima Ibrahim, 32, has been looking for a maid for a few months as her current weekly helper is going back to her home in Indonesia soon.