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BIOGRAPHY:

Omari suffers from severe and disabling ADD/ADHD. Though he was provided with extensive disability accommodations, he has been unable to finish his collegiate education and has dropped out several times. The latter is due to his alarmingly inconsistent access to his functionally necessary psychotropic medication. This significant challenge has been solely created and maintained by the medication's expensive cost coupled with his inaccessibility to sufficient and dependable insurance coverage. Accordingly, his dream is to be able to afford his medication independently so that he can finish his collegiate program uninterrupted. 

Omari has over 5 years of domestic volunteer experience supporting individuals in behavioral health settings. Correspondingly, his other dream is to use this skill set to volunteer abroad long-term through a formal program named Go Volunteer Africa. He is highly interested in supporting communities in Malawi, Uganda, Kenya (in the "slum" area), Togo and/or Liberia. He specifically would like to service non-first world communities suffering from notable behavioral health restrictions due to his own experiences: he knows first-hand how adversely and extensively untreated mental health conditions can affect one's life. Moreover, he would like to support individuals that live in second and third world countries because they face hardships far worse than those in America. In response to systemic disabilities, they receive grossly inadequate psychiatric care and egregiously low levels of remediation and intervention.

Check out Omari's extended video in the 2025 Dreamers section to view photographs from his volunteer history and additional information about his dreams.

Omari selected Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) as his donor recipient to receive 25% of his net profits.