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Quality Inn in South Portland provides a home for immigrants
Kilembo Joana Mandiangu, 16, pushes Neymar Gabriel Selemani on a bicycle through the parking lot of the Quality Inn in South Portland on Dec. 16. Mandiangu arrived in Maine from Angola with her parents and two sisters in mid-December. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer Buy
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Kilembo Joana Mandiangu, 16, pushes Neymar Gabriel Selemani on a bicycle through the parking lot of the Quality Inn in South Portland on Dec. 16. Mandiangu arrived in Maine from Angola with her parents and two sisters in mid-December.
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Dan Kane, a volunteer with the South Portland Food Cupboard, delivers boxes of food to the Quality Inn on Dec. 16. The hotel has transformed its cafe area into a food pantry for the immigrant families housed at the hotel.
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A newly arrived immigrant couple wait while Josh Pobrisolo, a health officer and community paramedic with the city of South Portland, and Prince Pombo Mafumba coordinate services for immigrant families housed at the Quality Inn.
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In the parking lot of the Quality Inn in South Portland, Reina Dieu Merci Nsona, right, and two other women who arrived in Maine recently listen to Prince Pombo Mafumba, who is translating, speak about COVID-19 vaccines.
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Samuel Kinianga, holding his daughter Charon, looks to Josh Pobrisolo as Prince Pombo Mafumba translates in a room in a trailer in the parking lot of the Quality Inn. Kinianga, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been in Maine for two months and was filling out paperwork with Mafumba's help to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
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A child looks back to his family while being greeted by Santa during a Christmas event at Eastpoint Church in South Portland on Dec. 18. Volunteers handed out presents, supplies and bags of treats to immigrant families living in hotels in South Portland and Portland.
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Immigrant families line up as Michelle Sandman looks through a bag of presents to find an age-appropriate gift during a Christmas event at Eastpoint Church in South Portland on Dec. 18. Sandman, general manager of the Quality Inn in South Portland, organized the event.
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Michelle Sandman greets a child of an immigrant family during the Christmas event Dec. 18 at Eastpoint Church in South Portland.
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Charon Kinianga, 1, eats potato chips while waiting for her father in the parking lot at the Quality Inn in South Portland on Dec. 16.
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Children of immigrant families housed at the Quality Inn in South Portland board a school bus at the hotel on Dec. 14.
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Two boys from immigrant families play in the parking lot of the Quality Inn. The hotel houses about 400 immigrants, over half of whom are children.
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A child of an immigrant family parks a bicycle in the parking lot of the Quality Inn in South Portland before boarding a school bus on Dec. 14.
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Two women and a girl walk back to their rooms at the Quality Inn after receiving backpacks stuffed with supplies from Josh Pobrisolo, a health officer and community paramedic with the city of South Portland.