By Andrew Rice LEWISTON, Maine — Ever since the first COVID-19 vaccines became available, Abdikhadar Shire has been urging people to get their shot when the time came. Shire is executive director of the Lewiston nonprofit AK Health and Social…
By Gabrielle Mannino AUGUSTA, Maine — In a press conference on Friday, Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced the state is adopting an age-based strategy for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and announced Maine residents age 60 and older will be eligible starting…
By Evan Popp Leaders in the Maine immigrant community came together in an online meeting Wednesday to celebrate the end of former President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban and to discuss how the policy impacted them, members of their community and…
By Evan Popp As Maine pushes forward with distributing the COVID-19 vaccine, immigrant leaders in the state are ramping up outreach efforts to ensure New Mainers have access to inoculation and information about the vaccine that can combat historically-based vaccine…
By Kevin Miller, PressHerald.com As a leader in Maine’s growing Congolese community, Papy Bongibo said he was concerned about false rumors and a general lack of awareness about the threat posed by the coronavirus. So last Sunday, he visited several…
By Amjambo Africa Abdullahi Ali fled war-torn Somalia with his family as a young child and spent much of his early life in one of the world’s largest refugee complexes in Dadaab, Kenya before being resettled to Maine in 2009.…