The Warmth of Our Welcome: Celebration of World Refugee Day & Launch of the Welcoming Ottawa Week

OLIP, the City of Ottawa, the Ottawa Police, Local Agencies Serving Immigrants (LASI), and Refugee613, will join forces with UNHCR, and the Refugee Network of Ottawa (RENO) to host a breakfast event and a public conversation that will:
Celebrate World Refugee Day by showing our solidarity with refugees both in Ottawa & everywhere in the world
Kick start the 2016 Welcoming Ottawa Week (June 20th–27th) & present the Annual Welcoming Ottawa Awards, which recognize Ottawans nominated by immigrants and refugees as being kind and supportive in their journeys of making Ottawa their new home
Host a public conversation animated by expert speakers and by the experience of refugees, both new and long integrated Ottawans who came to Canada as refugees.

Language: Bilingual (English & French)

Host: OLIP, the City of Ottawa, the Ottawa Police, Local Agencies Serving Immigrants (LASI), and Refugee613, will join forces with UNHCR, and the Refugee Network of Ottawa (RENO)

Contact: Nyamulola Kambanji, nyamulola@olip-plio.ca