Saturday’s family fun day in QEII Square, organised by regional settlement services to coincide with the start of Refugee Week, attracted an estimated 250 people from a variety of backgrounds.

The event included a welcome to country interpreted into two other languages to assist the Bhutanese and Congolese listeners.

Multicultural settlement worker Frank Johnson, of Albury-Wodonga Volunteer Resource Bureau, said since 2009 nearly 1500 refugees had made the Border their home.

“It’s been such a successful settlement story here locally and we all should be very proud of that,” he said.