The Domestic Workers United entered their first year of funding with the Martín-Baró Initiative at Grassroots International (MBI at GRI) in 2021. This NYC-based group is a grassroots collective of workers, women of color, and immigrant women of primarily Caribbean, Latina, and African background working to “build power, raise the level of respect for domestic work, establish fair labor standards in the domestic work industry, and build a movement to end exploitation and oppression for all.” The group was funded by the MBI in 2021 to support their efforts toward “health, healing, and recovery” that they had begun at the onset of the pandemic. Their main initiative connects speakers with expertise in healthcare, finance, and economics, with access to benefits available to workers, to join the collective and allow worker leaders and members of DWU to continue to recover from the hardships of the pandemic as they relate to illness, fear of illness, losses of family members and friends, job loss, and housing and food insecurity. The group states that over the last year the “MBI funding helped DWU keep [their] members and their families fed, less socially isolated on a weekly basis, more informed about available benefits and sources of economic relief, and more aware of how to acquire primary medical care in New York City.” With their funding, the group was also able to produce a podcast on “24 Hr Live-In Caregiving as Modern-Day Slavery,” organize weekly gatherings and organic food distributions, partake in eight DWU town-halls and one retreat day, and provide nearly a dozen workers with pandemic relief through the Excluded Workers Fund. Throughout the course of these presentations, and given the developing concerns around the changing nature of the pandemic and the continuous trauma of loss that it carries, DWU discovered other areas for expansion of support and reflection for the coming year. They hope to conduct more retreat-style gatherings with the new cycle of funding—including opportunities for massages for members! The group ultimately intends to dedicate these new funds to more intensive discussions and activities that target these challenges, allow for respite, and uplift the voices of and advocacy for the rights of domestic workers, their families, and their communities.