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Oct 23, 2021

#HonorDomesticWork

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HONOR DOMESTIC WORK hihdomesticemployers MELINDA ALEXANDER mumumansion “I deeply appreciate you!” For ten years you have lived with my mother Melinda, your grandmother. You grew up with her devotion to you, with her modeling for me and for you what lifetime caregiving looks like. As you became a teen she set out to show you that life is adventure, taking you as companion—from Mexico to Norway. When Mom began to need help, you were there for her and, as time passed, you became her primary family caregiver. While Lupe took the day shift as paid caregiver (see tribute to her on mumumansion), you have been there from 6pm to 11am—out of love and generosity of spirit. As your grandmother is living her 100th year, everyday you bring her love and light.
Together, we both work with Hand in Hand hihdomesticemployers and cadomesticworkers—striving to raise awareness that everyone’s home is also a workplace, for family caregivers and paid domestic workers alike. As you have cared for your grandmother, you have joined the international women’s movement to make the invisible labor of the home visible and to fight for equity and dignity for domestic workers. My tribute to Lupe and your tribute to me, and many others stories about life in the struggle to care for loved ones while fighting for government-funded Longterm services and supports, are on the website: www://honordomesticwork.com domesticworkers caringacrossgen #dignityhealth #honordomesticwork ...

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Nov 4

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Honored to partner with hihdomesticemployers to #HonorDomesticWork throughout the month of November (and beyond). I am forever grateful for Audrey who has been a part of our family since Shaan was a baby. Share your own story of appreciation and learn more about the campaign at HonorDomesticWork.com. ...

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See You Soon ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿

Grateful to be here with our affiliates hihdomesticemployers & domestic workers, activists, & organizations fighting for equal rights for ALL home care workers!

Stay Tuned For Live Coverage 👀🤳🏽

whitehouse
seiu_org
momsrising
nwlcaf
paidleaveforall
blackwomensroundtable
domesticworkers

#CareCantWait #BuildBackBetter #HCBS #domesticworkers #care #staffingagentsofchange #honordomesticwork ...

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Nov 12

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We are delighted to partner with⠀hihdomesticemployer to #HonorDomesticWork! Can we get 10 of our followers to shout out someone who’s paid or unpaid domestic work made an impression on you?
If you share your story on www.HonorDomesticWork.com, you'll receive this beautiful poster by artist micahbazant for free! ...

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Yesterday hihdomesticemployers launched #HonorDomesticWork and I’m moved to honor my mother, levasiaidereh 💕

My mom worked as a house cleaner when we first arrived to the U.S. in the late 80s. As undocumented immigrants who did not speak English, this was the only work she could find. She cleaned houses during the day, and at night we all (my two siblings, dad and me) helped clean offices. After a very difficult battle with cancer 4 years into our time here, she gave the work up because it would have been too strenuous of work to return to. Shortly after her recovery, my grandmother - her mother - was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and my mother became her caretaker. Caring for her even while she continued to work during the day.

Her care continued after the death of my grandmother in a multitude of ways. From caring for aging friends to welcoming into our home friends and family, who like us, chose to leave their lives in Peru behind in search of more economic and physical security in the U.S. Eventually, working in two residential living facilities for the aging, before dropping everything to come to NYC and help with childcare for my little one so that I could finish my Masters program, and now as I am back to working full-time.

I have learned immensely about care (and love) from her, both from her work as a former domestic worker and as a devoted daughter, mother, grandmother and care giver.

I deeply appreciate the care and love she pours into the kiddo, into all of us.

You too can honor a paid or unpaid care giver in your life by visiting: www.honordomesticwork.com and sharing your story. You’ll receive this beautiful poster (pic of it in slide 2) by Bay Area artist micahbazant for FREE (I gifted it to my mama). Join me in participating in this beautiful and inspiring project. ❤️

#DomesticWorkers #DomesticWork #FamilyCareGiver #CareGiving
#Grandmother #Abuela #Immigrants #ItTakesAVillage #Gratitude #Thankful #NYC ...

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Veralucia honors their father for all the ways he supports them:

I am deeply thankful for my dad, a Black immigrant engineer from Peru who moved to the United States to provide me with opportunities he never had available to him. For years he has tended to me, even bringing me homemade lunch daily through the pandemic, because I have Lupus and other chronic illnesses that cause fatigue and pain. When he suddenly developed macular holes in both eyes, I was more than willing and happy to step up to be his chauffeur, secretary, and advocate. The love between us makes this work and the darker moments a little lighter. I am happy to say after 4 surgeries, he is healing well! I am so grateful for his support.

#HonorDomesticWork
#Caregiving #DomesticWork #FamilyCaregiver #Father #Family #Support #Reciprocity #Interdependence #Grateful

[ID: Afro-Latinx Man wearing glasses, a dark blue flat cap hat and a gray hoodie over a light blue dress shirt, left hand in his pant's pocket, his right arm around his Afro-latinx offspring, Veralucia, wearing glasses, a scarf with purple and green designs around their neck, and a gray cardigan, black bag drapped over one shoulder. Both smiling widely at the camera. Storefronts in the background.] ...

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Nov 10

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A love note to domestic work from our friend @alicatsamurai ❤️

#HonorDomesticWork

#Repost @disability_visibility
#HonorDomesticWork is a story collection and gift-giving project by @hihdomesticemployers to celebrate the people who work in our homes and who support us and our families. It is a simple, tangible and joyous way to bring attention to the inherent value of domestic work in all of our lives.

For more:
https://honordomesticwork.com/

You can also download this beautiful poster by @micahbazant!

https://honordomesticwork.com/#get-poster

#CareCantWait #caregiving #HCBS #LTSS #CripTheVote

Image description: Framed poster flanked by plants. Poster by Micah Bazant is brightly colored Illustration with the words: "I Deeply Appreciate Your Work" in the center, and "thank you" in seven languages around the border. Women and nonbinary people of color are cleaning and providing childcare and access support for elders and disabled employers. They are surrounded by stars and green leaves. ...

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Nov 16

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At NCIL, we know the value of the domestic workers, like personal care attendants, who provide the services we need to live in our own homes and communities.

Which is why NCIL is excited to partner with hihdomesticemployers to #HonorDomesticWork.

So tell us - whose care has made an impact on your life?

Go to www.HonorDomesticWork.com to share your story and get a free poster! ...

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Hannah Guilford honors the families, friends and neighbors in her community for the care they provide by filling the #Childcare gaps:

I work in childcare access and want to honor all of the family members, friends, and neighbors in my small, rural community that fill the gaps in our childcare system that is failing both caretakers and families. They devote the finite resources of their time and their energy to care for other children on top (and sometimes at the expense) of caring for their own. The economy of our community could not exist without their work, but they are often made invisible by their class, race, ethnicity, and language. Our community relies on them, and I thank them for the sacrifices they make to do this work.

#HonorDomesticWork
#Caregiving #DomesticWork #DomesticWorkers #FamilyCaregiving #CommunityCare #Neighbors #Family #CareEconomy #ItTakesAVillage #Gratitude

[ID: Off-white colored graphic with light purple blob shape text box with quote above | Hannah Guilford, Leadville, CO | Purple Hand In Hand logo | #HonorDomesticWork] ...

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Nov 5

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November is National Family #Caregivers Month! I am joining hihdomesticemployers to #HonorDomesticWork and express my gratitude for the family caregivers in my life (shout out to Mom!)

So tell us - whose care has made an impact on your life?

Go to www.HonorDomesticWork.com to share your story and get a free poster! ...

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Nov 1

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Stacy Kono honors her mother, Grace Kono:

My mom has been a caring and patient caregiver to my dad as he's navigated a Parkinson's diagnosis earlier this year. While my sisters and I support them both, my mom gives the most time and attention to making sure my dad drinks water, takes his medications, and gets his sleep and exercise. I see her bring joy into caregiving by initiating board games with my dad and working together on crossword puzzles. I know she's done everything she could this last year to keep both of them safe during the pandemic too. I honor my mom, Grace Kono, for the love and care she brings to my dad every day.

#HonorDomesticWork
#CareGiving #HomeCare #Family #Mother #Parenrs #Wife #FamilyCareGiver #Interdependence #Gratitude #ThankYou ...

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Nov 11

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A loving tribute from @ximemilagros to her mother for all the ways she cares 💕

#HonorDomesticWork

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#Repost @ximemilagros
Yesterday @hihdomesticemployers launched #HonorDomesticWork and I’m moved to honor my mother, @levasiaidereh 💕

My mom worked as a house cleaner when we first arrived to the U.S. in the late 80s. As undocumented immigrants who did not speak English, this was the only work she could find. She cleaned houses during the day, and at night we all (my two siblings, dad and me) helped clean offices. After a very difficult battle with cancer 4 years into our time here, she gave the work up because it would have been too strenuous of work to return to. Shortly after her recovery, my grandmother - her mother - was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and my mother became her caretaker. Caring for her even while she continued to work during the day.

Her care continued after the death of my grandmother in a multitude of ways. From caring for aging friends to welcoming into our home friends and family, who like us, chose to leave their lives in Peru behind in search of more economic and physical security in the U.S. Eventually, working in two residential living facilities for the aging, before dropping everything to come to NYC and help with childcare for my little one so that I could finish my Masters program, and now as I am back to working full-time.

I have learned immensely about care (and love) from her, both from her work as a former domestic worker and as a devoted daughter, mother, grandmother and care giver.

I deeply appreciate the care and love she pours into the kiddo, into all of us.

You too can honor a paid or unpaid care giver in your life by visiting: www.honordomesticwork.com and sharing your story. You’ll receive this beautiful poster (pic of it in slide 2) by Bay Area artist @micahbazant for FREE (I gifted it to my mama). Join me in participating in this beautiful and inspiring project. ❤️

#DomesticWorkers #DomesticWork #FamilyCareGiver #CareGiving
#Grandmother #Abuela #Immigrants #ItTakesAVillage #Gratitude #Thankful #NYC ...

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As we move into Thanksgiving week, we are thinking about gratitude. We want to shout out personal care attendants, who are overwhelmingly people of color who are overworked and underpaid to do the work that allows us to live and thrive in our own communities. Whose work in your home are you grateful for?

Show your thanks at www.HonorDomesticWork.com and get a free poster to give them too.

#HonorDomesticWork ...

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A beautiful tribute from @herwisdomgrows to her daughter @mumumansion for the generous love and care she gives to her grandmother:

#Repost @herwisdomgrows
HONOR DOMESTIC WORK @hihdomesticemployers MELINDA ALEXANDER @mumumansion “I deeply appreciate you!” For ten years you have lived with my mother Melinda, your grandmother. You grew up with her devotion to you, with her modeling for me and for you what lifetime caregiving looks like. As you became a teen she set out to show you that life is adventure, taking you as companion—from Mexico to Norway. When Mom began to need help, you were there for her and, as time passed, you became her primary family caregiver. While Lupe took the day shift as paid caregiver (see tribute to her on @mumumansion), you have been there from 6pm to 11am—out of love and generosity of spirit. As your grandmother is living her 100th year, everyday you bring her love and light.
Together, we both work with Hand in Hand @hihdomesticemployers and @cadomesticworkers—striving to raise awareness that everyone’s home is also a workplace, for family caregivers and paid domestic workers alike. As you have cared for your grandmother, you have joined the international women’s movement to make the invisible labor of the home visible and to fight for equity and dignity for domestic workers. My tribute to Lupe and your tribute to me, and many others stories about life in the struggle to care for loved ones while fighting for government-funded Longterm services and supports, are on the website: www://honordomesticwork.com @domesticworkers @caringacrossgen #dignityhealth

#HonorDomesticWork
#Caregiving #FamilityCaregiver #Grandmother #Granddaughter #Generosity

[ID 1: Melinda (grandmother), an aging white woman with short silver hair wrapped in a plaid blanket, lies next to her granddaughter, Melinda Alexander, a middle-aged white woman, smiling widely, holding a Honor Domestic Work poster that reads: I Deeply Appreciate Your Work.]

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We love seeing how our friends at @cga_npc honored their incredible domestic worker members at their We Make History graduation this past weekend (Congratulations 🎉), and are grateful that they have shared with us these beautiful words from their members about how they #HonorDomesticWork 💜

From @cga_npc:
“We are so grateful for the beautiful gift from Hand in Hand that we will be distributing to our members. Care work continues to be undervalued and invisiblized, so every gesture that recognizes domestic workers is one in the long history fighting for their worth and dignity.”

#Repost slide 1: @cga_npc caption 👇🏼
We made history! Deep congratulations to the graduates of We Make History, a 17 workshop course on the history of domestic work, the systems of oppression that have shaped this sector, and the strategies that domestic workers have used to organize for racial, gender, and economic justice. We are inspired by their commitment and look forward to establishing this course as a core program of our political education work in 2022!
#WeMakeHistory #DomesticWorkers #NYC

#Caregiving #CareWork #DomesticWork #Childcare #NannyLife #Interdependence #Gratitude #Honor

[ID 1: A group of domestic workers of various races, all wearing face masks and white graduation caps, holding graduation certificates. Behind them are gold, black and white balloons above gold streamers, all hanging on a large white wall.

ID 2: Off-white graphic with pink and yellow flowers on top left corner and bottom right corner | Carroll Gardens Association logo on bottom left corner| Yellow frame with photo of Blanca Lozano, Latinx woman with pulled-back brown hair with light highlights that frame her face, wearing a black and white striped buttoned-down shirt, holding an Honor Domestic Work poster. Various photos hanging on the wall behind her. | Graphic text reads: I honor being able to be part of the moral, positive and conscious human base of the future adult and to be part of the magic and imagination that is lived with them in a world where there are things that we adults no longer think “I love being a NANNY.” Blanca Lozano

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Honoring the domestic workers that forged the path for rights, dignity and protections for domestic workers in the U.S. Ancestors like Carmelita Torres, featured by @domesticworkers #MakingHistory project. We #HonorDomesticWork! ...

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Sharing the love @airyneffets has for Leticia and Madison, and their #Interdependence:

#HonorDomesticWork
#Caregiving #DomesticWorkers
#DomesticWork #FairCare
#DomesticEmployers #CareEconomy #ItTakesAVillage
#Thankful

#Repost @airyneffets
I’m so grateful for the love we receive! Our domestic workers are not considered employees but members of our family and home. I’m so happy how we all work together. And so excited to celebrate Leticia and Madison’s birthday both today. We love you both and so do Archie and Theo. I wish you could have all seen how this portrait came together - true love and admiration! 💛

@hihdomesticemployers #honordomesticwork

P.S. November is National Family Caregivers Month and tonight is a full moon with my moon art showing up any minute. How fitting!

[Image description: Two women, one, a woman of color with hair pulled back, wearing a blue top with white collar, smiling widely, as she holds a young white child with blonde hair, wearing a gray and red long-sleeve shirt looking at the camera. She is standing next to a white woman with blonde hair, wearing a black top, holding another young white child with blonde hair, wearing a blue and white shirt, and holding a red and yellow toy truck. Furniture and a wall mirror in the background.] ...

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Keith Gurgui and Family honor Rosita Villa:

For her hard work, reliability, and patience for many years (going on 12). By helping me (turning, bathing, dressing, feeding, etc.) she increases my independence and helps me live a more dignified life. I've been able to work and contribute. Personal care is an essential part of my life.

#HonorDomesticWork
#CareGiving #HCBS #HomeCare #DomesticWorkers #DomesticWork #DomesticEmployers #FairCare #CareEconomy #Interdependence #Gratitude #Thankful ...

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We love how our friend @reshmasaujani is honoring Audrey for the care she gives Shaan!

#Repost @reshmasaujani
Honored to partner with @hihdomesticemployers to #HonorDomesticWork throughout the month of November (and beyond). I am forever grateful for Audrey who has been a part of our family since Shaan was a baby. Share your own story of appreciation and learn more about the campaign at HonorDomesticWork.com.
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#HonorDomesticWork
#CareGiving #DomesticWorkers #DomesticWork #CareEconomy
#DomesticEmployers #FairCare
#Childcare #ItTakesAVillage #Interdependence #Graditude
#Thankful ...

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Julia Solow and Family honor Jackie Newton:

Jackie provided child care for us and made a lasting impression on us all with her positive, loving and caring attitude. She is a genuinely amazing human being and we were so fortunate to have her in our family's life. Even now, more than 30 years later, we are still in touch with her. Thank you forever, Jackie!

#HonorDomesticWork
#CareGiving #DomesticWorkers #DomesticWork
#Childcare #NannyLife #CareEconomy #DomesticEmployers #FairCare #Interdependence #Gratitude #ThankYou ...

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Thank you for showing up to honor domestic work. At Hand in Hand, we are building a just and caring economy starting in our homes and communities. Everyone who believes in domestic worker rights and quality affordable care are invited to support our work.

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Honor Domestic Work is a project of Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network.

Hand in Hand is a national organization committed to building a just and caring economy starting in our homes and communities.

In our vision of the world, the work that happens in our homes is valued the same as all other work, and domestic workers have rights and protections, benefits, and fair pay.

We fight for a future where everyone has the care and support they need to thrive and survive.

For more information about Hand in Hand visit our website at domesticemployers.org

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