Every year since 2001, the whole world has celebrated Refugee Day. The UN General Assembly proclaimed this holiday on December 4, 2000. The number of people seeking asylum is only increasing every day. In Odessa, the celebration of World Refugee Day took place on the territory of the Temporary Accommodation Center for Refugees. The event was attended by: the Head of the Main Department of the State Migration Service of Ukraine in the Odesa region, Tkachuk Sergey Vladislavovich, Deputy Regional Representative of the UNHCR in Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine Vanno Nupech, Head of the Department for Refugees of the Main Department of the State Migration Service in the Odesa region Tkachuk Oleg Vladimirovich, President The International Committee for the Protection of Rights and Freedoms of Citizens “Shield” and the International Charitable Foundation “Assalam” Dager Saleh Muhamed, representatives of state authorities and local self-government, various national-cultural societies and communities. The concert and entertainment program was presented by pupils of the Odessa Center for Children and Youth Creativity “Promin,” the Temporary Accommodation Center for Refugees, the judo association “Victoria,” and the UN group with cheerful medleys of famous domestic and foreign compositions. At the festival, one could see an exhibition of national costumes and try Afghan pilaf and Arabic sweets. Representatives of the Assalam International Charitable Foundation gave gifts to the children present. The President of the Shield Committee and the Assalam Foundation, Dager Saleh, received gratitude “for cooperation with state bodies, support, and assistance in the formation, an adaptation of representatives of national communities in the Ukrainian society of the Odesa region” from the State Migration Service of Ukraine in the Odesa region and a letter from the Odesa Center for Children’s and Youth Creativity “Promin” for active participation in the creative life of the Center.
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