John — Adelaide explained the toll her nightmare experience as a live-in nanny took on her: "I became more and more fearful. I would cry in my room."

She was working from seven in the morning to eleven at night, SEVEN days a week. She was being paid $100 a month, and her employer had taken her passport. She was trapped.

All over the country domestic workers are exploited. Sometimes it's illegal, but just as often it's LEGAL, because domestic workers have NO federal sexual harassment, minimum wage, or maximum work week protections.

No wonder domestic workers are scared. But we can help take the fear away.

Our campaign to pass a National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights to correct these injustices is ramping up BIG TIME, and that means we're making big budgetary decisions about how hard we can push.

John, will you make your most generous contribution today so we can unleash our fiercest campaign ever and help take the fear away for domestic workers when they show up to work?

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Too many of the incredible women – the majority are women of color – who care for our homes and our families not only face horrific sexual harassment at work, they also earn barely enough to even feed themselves and their families.

Domestic workers still only earn an average of $11 an hour or less. And almost all go without healthcare benefits.

Things are getting worse. With inflation pushing the prices of everything from eggs to electricity up, and with gas prices at a record high, domestic workers who were already struggling could be pushed over the edge.

Adelaide was only able to escape her nightmare thanks to the support of a stranger she ran into at a bus stop who stepped up to help out. This is not a scalable way to protect domestic workers at work.

We all have a part to play in creating lasting change and ensuring that these essential workers can earn a decent wage, put food on the table, and receive the benefits they deserve.

John, we hope you will take this opportunity to make a meaningful, lasting difference in the lives of domestic workers by making a much-needed donation of $25.

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Over the next 10 years, home care in particular will be among the fastest growing occupations in the U.S. We all want to make sure that there will be professionals, like Adelaide, in our future who are treated with dignity and respect, who receive fair wages, and who we can rely on to care for us and for our families. It’s time we play our part in making sure this happens.

Thank you for all you do,

Celeste Faison, Director of Campaigns
National Domestic Workers Alliance