ZamZam Mohamud, left, and Ali Abdi from Multicultural Community and Family Support Services in Lewiston prepare supplies Wednesday afternoon for over 200 Connors Elementary School second graders. This is the second year that the center has volunteered to create book bags with a hardcover book, notebooks, pencils and other school supplies, after Mohamud met the anonymous donor while visiting her daughter in North Carolina. The woman, who summers in Maine, wanted to help inner city elementary school children and came up with a plan with Mohamud after learning about Lewiston. Last year it was completely funded by the generosity of Mohamud’s friend, who wishes to remain anonymous. This year, the donor paid for book bags for the first grade and the multicultural services center funded the second graders’ supplies. Several local volunteers visited the downtown center Wednesday afternoon to help fill the bags. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal