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Lewiston’s Somali Community Turns 10
August 5, 2010  
A Somali woman and childeren in Lewiston

Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks revisits Lewiston’s Somali refugee community ten years after the arrival of the first immigrants.

Fatuma Hussein, a leader in the Somali community as well as mom joins Jennifer in the studio along with Stephen Wessler, who is Executive Director of the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence and Phil Nadeau, Deputy City Administrator for the City of Lewiston.

 

They discuss what’s been learned, what still needs to happen and what can Lewiston teach other communities with large refugee populations.

 

 

[This program originally aired February 11, 2010]

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