In 2022, Hand in Hand launched Honor Domestic Work— a story collection and gift giving project to celebrate the importance of domestic and caregiving work in all of our lives. The project was a powerful way to collect stories from the public on the value of domestic and care work.

 

For the project, we encouraged members and supporters to share stories of appreciation, and in turn we sent them a poster we commissioned by visual artist Micah Bizant. Many people gave the posters to the domestic workers in their lives, and we published stories on social media.  

 

Poster depicting various scenes of domestic work, reading "I deeply appreciate your work"

Credit: “I appreciate your work” by Micah Bizant

 

While we are no longer distributing posters, we continue to collect stories of appreciation from domestic employers. Honor Domestic Work continues to live on today- check out stories of appreciation on social media by searching the #HonorDomesticWork hashtag. 

Grid of posts submitted to our Honor Domestic Work Hashtag on Instagram