The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is paying a Portland-based nonprofit $90,000 to form a stakeholder group that will work on strategies to combat diabetes among the city’s immigrant and refugee populations.
According to a state contract document published Monday, the Maine CDC will be awarding $90,000 to Maine Access Immigrant Network (MAIN), a nonprofit organization originally founded in Maine in 2002 as the Somali Culture and Development Association.
MAIN states on their website that their mission is to “build a stronger multicultural community in Portland,” as well as “to address refugee health literacy, health care enrollment, and coordination of health care benefits and non-clinical care.”
The nonprofit’s focus is on providing services to “new Mainers” from Africa and the Middle East.
The $90,000 grant will represent a significant chunk of revenue for the organization, which brought in just $646,014 in 2023, according to publicly available Form 990 tax documents.
The Maine CDC grant will fund the creation of a stakeholder group made up of MAIN’s “team of multilingual Community Health Workers (CHWs),” who will work directly with Portland’s immigrants and refugees on “strategies to reduce and prevent and manage diabetes,” the contract reads.
While the grant was initially set to start in January 2023 and run until June 2024, it was delayed until now — a delay which the Maine CDC has used to allow for a higher contract dollar amount.
In justifying the no-bid noncompetitive grant to MAIN, the Maine CDC wrote that the nonprofit is “trusted in the refugee and immigrant communities,” and that their health workers speak the “target languages” of Arabic, Somali and Portuguese.
“The organization’s [MAIN’s] staff is composed of over 90% individuals who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC),” the Maine CDC wrote. “All these factors make MAIN a unique provider when it comes to being successful in this work.”
Seriously are you kidding me?!?!? These ILLEGAL ALIENS come here breaking the law and instead of helping our own American citizens our Maine tax dollars are going to this!!! Good lord people of Maine have you had enough yet? Keep voting these Communists in and pretty soon you will not have a state worth living in let alone visiting for a vacation.
take away their food stamps and they cant over eat our poisonious food…
Oh boy am I SICK of hearing about spending MORE MONEY on these “ immigrants “ .
I’m glad the M.W. is letting me know because NOBODY ELSE is talking about it .
Illegal aliens who drain the tax money from us lifetime residents, and force us out of their homes to pay for these damn Somalis . I’m pretty well fed up with it . More illegals on the states welfare rolls IS NOT A SOLUTION TO ANYTHING . Somebody ought to tally up all we have spent over the past ten years.
What the hell has happened to our state ?
How much will the Maine Taxpayers pay me if I gain 75 pounds and wrap a towel around MY head ?
Yep here we go with another no bid contract given out by this Gov. who threatened to sue Gov. Lepage for trying to award a no bid contract. They’re several members of my family who have diabetes and they have to pay for the medicine that insurance doesn’t cover FUKIN worthless Mills.
I love the poster that the Somali woman has in her hand .
” In Our America “:
So now the “:unwanted guests “ have become the owners .
Good Lord ……. We are so screwed .
$640k in, $410k in salaries and benefits. I think I’ll be starting my own “non-profit” wink, wink.
C. Simms …..Go for it !
Make sure your skin is the correct color and that your last name can’t be pronounced . You too should be able to have a new BMW or a Mercedes also . Free place to live . Lots of benefits for all of the mud people entering the country illegally . Especially those who infest Maine .
That is from Maine taxpayers’ money, not Joe Biden’s
Money from Maine citizens to illegals.
We are Mainers are suckers voting for any Democrat
And Angus is dressed as an Independent.
We need to ask at every public appetence our elected leaders WHY!
It was a Black lady who was burned to death in a NYC subway by an illegal Alian. Where is Black lives asking WHY
Can everybody hear that loud “ sucking “ sound ?
It’s the Somali population in Maine draining our state’s funds for “ social services “ .
WTF is going on in Augusta ?
I’d rather MY tax money went to the SPCA .
Can everybody hear that loud “ sucking “ sound ?
It’s the Somalis in Lewiston draining our state’s social services funds .
Aren’t there any kids in Maine who need shoes and eyeglasses that are more deserving than these third world welfare queens ?
When will the REAL Mainers wake up to the screwing we are getting from Augusta ?
Sure thing Bob, you want to be in charge of office management? The job consists of watering plants and that’s about it, pays $200k for as long as we can get mills to fund us.
Type 2 diabetes can be controlled with diet, exercise and intermittent fasting no money needed
How do you get diabetes on rice and beans? Those immigrants are eating better than many locals.
more money to the MUD PEOPLE !
WHAT A SCAM!!!
“The nonprofit’s focus is on providing services to “new Mainers” from Africa and the Middle East.”
BUT the dollars to provide the services comes from the “old Mainers”!
Not terrorist in the streets.