This family-friendly event is free, with plenty of food and crafts available for purchase, and activities for visitors of all ages. Rain or shine, the show will go on. We are a family-oriented and handicapped accessible event with shuttle service available. We encourage visitors to bike, walk, or use the free shuttle service provided from parking lots running every 15 minutes throughout the day.
This link will take you to a page dedicated to resources available for immigrants. Welcome to the Friendly City!
Clicking on the picture above will take you to a comprehensive list of all international restaurants located in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Yum!
Through extensive training and experience in the particular dynamics that influence the lives of immigrants and refugees, the agency works diligently to engage immigrants, connect cultures, and build community with a vision for a thriving community that everyone can call home. Recognizing that our work encompasses more than what a Board and four staff members are able to provide, we focus our work on both reducing the burden that individuals and families experience when immigrating to our community and improving local community awareness and understanding of the immigrant experience and benefits to the area.
The Harrisonburg Immigration and Refugee office has resettled refugees since 1988 from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Burma, Colombia, Congo (Kinshasa), Croatia, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Russia, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan within a 100 mile radius of our office. Our primary goal is to help the refugee form long lasting relationships in the community which become the basis of self-sufficiency. In order to reach this goal a family must be able to maintain their own basic needs in a sustainable lifestyle. Our program provides a bridge from their former life in their home country to a new set of cultural, linguistic, and practical skills that will enable them to be successful in Harrisonburg.