LEWISTON — Bangor Savings Bank recently awarded $5,000 to The Center for Wisdom’s Women.

The Center is one of two agencies in Androscoggin County to win the 2018 annual Community Matters More competition.

The Center is a weekday drop-in center near Kennedy Park that offers safe and
sacred opportunities for women, in community, to heal from adverse life experiences, learn to thrive and enrich each other’s lives. It is also the home to a small social enterprise called Herban Works, and it has plans to open a long-term residential recovery community for women survivors or trafficking, addiction and prison called Sophia’s House.

The other local winning agency was Tree Street Youth which supports the youth of Lewiston-Auburn through academics, the arts and athletics. They provide a safe space that encourages healthy physical, social, emotional, and academic development while building unity across lines of difference.

Through shared efforts in inviting support, the two agencies garnered the most votes in the region. With thousands of votes cast by the people of Maine and New Hampshire during the 2018 Community Matters More campaign, the Bangor Savings Bank Foundation donated more than $100,000 to local nonprofit organizations across Maine.

The Center for Wisdom’s Women in Lewiston was recently awarded at $5,000 from Bangor Savings Bank. Accepting it are, from left, Pat Gardiner, Alisha Cady, Bethany Berndard, Eva Moreau Dutil, Klara Tammany, Abby Whiteowl, Sue Cocker, Sarah Barton, Judy Malony and Joan Doyon.

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