Lisieux Community’s drop-in center offers sanctuary from the streets
The Lisieux Community Center provides judgment-free support and education for women who have survived trauma, addiction, prostitution and life on the streets. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
All 4,000 square feet of the property is a woman-only space. For the safety of the woman served and that of the volunteers, men are not allowed on the property.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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