A group that helps the Border's new arrivals will mark its 15th anniversary in a town that's been doing the same for 150 years.
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Murray Valley Sanctuary Refugee Group will hold its 15th birthday party on Sunday, November 3, at Jindera Pioneer Museum between 11am and 3pm.
A fundraiser for the refugee group, the day includes lunch and food stalls, African dancers and choirs, historical items and toy exhibition.
The singers will include the Upendo women's choir, which performed in this year's Yackandandah Folk Festival.
Since 2004, Murray Valley Sanctuary Refugee Group has been sponsoring and settling refugees through the humanitarian visa process.
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President Penny Vine said almost 200 people had come to Albury-Wodonga through these efforts.
"On Sunday we're wanting to celebrate not just the safe arrival of people, but the skilled integration they've been undertaking and the very great welcoming and support that has come from within the community," she said.
"We just encounter someone in the street and they're warm and welcoming and doing anything they can to be of use.
"So it's really been a broad community response, not just a few individuals who wanted to make a difference."
Dr Vine said holding the celebrations at Jindera linked in with the town's 150th anniversary of German migration and the success of that settlement.
Albury-Wodonga's Congolese community now numbered about 500 people.
"It's really turning into quite a special community and a very safe place for people to be," Dr Vine said.
More information on the Murray Valley Sanctuary Refugee Group website.
