Generational Noor

✨ Breaking Free From Judgment ✨
📍 Lewiston, ME | 🗓 Feb 13 | ⏰ 5:00 PM

“Stigma is built in silence. Disclosure is the only way to break it.”

Join us for an unforgettable evening with Abdirahman Warsame as he shares his powerful story of addiction, survival, and recovery—and how breaking the silence is the first step toward healing, freedom, and change.

Abdirahman is a Minneapolis-based activist, nonprofit leader, and advocate for addiction recovery in the Somali & East African communities, and his story speaks especially to our youth.
🗣️ Real talk.
🤝 Honest conversation.
💛 Community healing.

⚠️ This is the FIRST of 3 events happening that weekend — don’t miss the kickoff!
✨ Youth, this space is FOR YOU. Come listen, reflect, ask questions, and be part of the conversation.

Because healing doesn’t happen in silence.
DONT MISS IT!!!

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The truth matters. Our community matters.
After the Lewiston tragedy, a public grant was made available to organizations serving the community. We applied in good faith, without knowing the grant amount, and with one intention only: to help our community heal, recover, and make sure something like October 25, 2023 never happens again.
The Maine Community Foundation has been clear donors chose where their funds went. Contributions could be directed to individual victims and families or to community organizations doing recovery and prevention work. The funds we received were donor-directed for organizational use and were not taken from individual victim compensation. Had this been a fund exclusively for victims, we would never have applied nor accepted it.
Every single dollar went back into the community.
To youth. To safety. To healing.
That year, we were on the ground more than ever. We created Community Safety Forums, launched youth mentorship programs, provided internships and fellowships so young people could work in our office instead of being left vulnerable, hosted youth mental health workshops and youth-centered events, and expanded mental health support groups during a time of deep trauma.
Trauma doesn’t require proximity. On the day of the shooting, we were on lockdown. Youth were calling their parents in fear, unsure if they were safe. The impact was real, lasting, and widespread—and we showed up.
This work is fully documented and reflected in our year-in-review. There was no misuse. No diversion. No personal gain. Attacking an organization that has always been on the ground, working hands-on with the community, ignores years of transparent, documented service and real impact. Everything we do has always been accountable, visible, and rooted in care.
We would never take resources meant for victims.
We applied to help and we did the work.
We didn’t show up for headlines—we showed up for people.
When the cameras leave, the work and the truth remain.
This community knows who stood with them.