Southern Maine Worker’s Center
Current priorities: Worker justice, racial justice, and leadership development.
Current priorities: Worker justice, racial justice, and leadership development.
Current Priorities: Continuing our 30×30 campaign to conserve 30% of Maine’s land and water by 2030 and to create more equitable access to the outdoors by reducing barriers such as fees and transportation access to public places.
Recent Achievement: The creation of SNAHP!– Solidarity Network Against Hunger and Poverty. This group is built on lived experience and gathers every other week to build organizational and activist skills with each other, all while planning community care, mutual aid, popular education, and legislative and policy changes.
Current Priorities: At this time of significant lack of housing, including short term and long term housing, helping our clients to secure and pay for safe and affordable housing.
Recent achievement: Mano en Mano supported community members’ access to emergency funds through the Estamos Aquí Mutual aid fund. As of May 2022, this fund has redistributed $613,358, supporting a total of 2,991 individuals across the state of Maine.
How does MaineShare benefit you?: It is a meaningful partnership that helps our organization work towards our mission of supporting immigrants and migrant workers to thrive in Maine.