The Kentucky Refugee Ministries (KRM) will celebrate World Refugee Day with a gathering in Woodland Park from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. June 20. Area refugees and their families will attend, along with the Face Summer day camp from Cassidy Elementary School and the KRM staff.
Two performances by a children's groups, a choir and a drumming circle, are scheduled.
Lexington currently receives most of its displaced persons or asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bhutan and Iraq. Since January 2013, KRM has resettled 132 refugees.
World Refugee Day was instituted by the United Nations in 2000. It is a day meant to raise awareness about the situations of of refugees across the world, and to mobilize political will and leadership to prevent and end the conflicts that trigger flows of refugees. KRM has been celebrating the occasion since 2006.
KRM is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing resettlement services to refugees through faith- and agency-based co-sponsorship in order to promote self-sufficiency and successful integration into the Lexington community.
For more information about the organization, visit www.krmlex.org.