Welcome Home is sponsoring a major event to mark World Refugee Day on June 20 this year. It’s a call to action to raise our collective voices in support of refugees at a time when there has never been a greater need. Our presentation will feature a panel of refugees to speak about their immigration experience, and a keynote speaker from HIAS. The event will include a potluck dinner with a sampling of cuisines from the families we serve and from volunteers, and the opportunity to meet our guests and clients. Children are encouraged to attend, and we will have many activities to keep them busy and entertained throughout the presentation!

The panel will include the following: a translator for the US Army in Afghanistan who came here with his family through the State Department’s Special Immigration Visa program in 2018; a woman whose family fled Eritrea to the Sudan, where she grew up, and who came to the US as a minor without her parents; a woman who fled Boko Haram in Nigeria and came here with her three children as an asylum-seeker last year.

Our keynote speaker will be Naomi Steinberg, HIAS Vice President, Policy & Advocacy. Ms. Steinberg will discuss current policy around the Refugee Admissions Program and other programs, and what we can do as advocates. Join us to hear the stories of refugees and learn how to advocate for them, to make new friends, and to have some fun!

To reserve a free ticket to the event: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4201999

To make a tax-deductible contribution to the event, and to help support Welcome Home: https://welcomehomerefugees.org/donate/