But they’ll start with gathering a group of Border residents to form a multicultural community choir.

The World Voices Choir will be launched on February 1, 2017 and is open to all community members, whether they can sing or not.

Mr Krowicky will lead the choir, which aims to promote community cohesiveness, tolerance and understanding.

“We want to help create community harmony through music,” he said.

“We believe that over time the choir can achieve a high standard of artistic quality capable of touring to other centres and having a small influence in promoting unity across the country.”

A core component of weekly choir practice will be a 15-minute tea break that will encourage choir members from all walks of life to meet and mingle.

“An integral part of this is to create greater support networks for refugees and members of our multicultural communities,” Mr Krowicky said.

Leaders from the Sudanese, Bhutanese, Muslim and Koorie communities have been invited to become involved in World Voices, for which Tim Fischer has agreed to be patron.

Ms Magidivani-Sanderson has been instrumental in galvanising interest among the African women she has met in her role as a family support worker with Gateway Community Health.

She said the success of a pop-up cafe, where the women cooked dishes for people to taste and appreciate, had whet their appetite for wider community engagement.

“These are some of the most resilient women I have ever met,” she said.

“Most of them are single mothers on protected visas, having come from war-torn countries and lived in refugee camps for up to 10 years.

“They have often been subjected to extreme violence and trauma you could never imagine.”

Now, with a safe place to call home, they are seizing every opportunity that comes their way.

A choir is a natural progression given “singing and dancing is synonymous to Africa”, Ms Magidivani-Sanderson said.

“When I think of a choir, the first thing that comes to mind is different voices coming together as one to produce a beautiful melody.

“It is a beautiful metaphor for our world where we can achieve so many things if we respect each other and unite as one.”