Refugee Week is held each year to celebrate our cultural diversity and promote education, understanding, respect and a sense of belonging for everyone. This year, celebrations will be held from Sunday 19 June to Saturday 25 June 2022, and includes World Refugee Day on Monday 20 June. This year’s World Refugee Week theme is ‘Healing’.
For more information, visit the Refugee Week website.
One in every four residents in the Moreton Bay region are born overseas and includes people from refugee backgrounds. With more than 180 nationalities speaking more than 150 different languages in our community, our cultural diversity is one of our greatest strengths and is at the heart of who we are. It makes the Moreton Bay Region a great place to live.
To learn more about some of Moreton Bay region’s refugee stories, visit Our Refugee Stories.
For more information or to share your refugee story, email local.history@moretonbay.qld.gov.au.