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A young girl stands outside her family tent in Nizip 1 refugee camp, Gaziantep, southern Turkey.

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Refugee and migrant children

Read how we support refugee and migrant children and their families.

18/10/2017

Halima Aden Visits UNICEF Programming in Italy

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Halima Aden Visits UNICEF Programming in Italy

International Supermodel and UNICEF Ambassador Meets with Unaccompanied Minors and Refugees

22/08/2019

Happiness, 19 years old, from Nigeria, participating in UPSHIFT with the team Celiacus, pitching the idea of producing gluten-free treats.

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Young people in Sicily are changing the migration narrative

Young migrants learning to navigate education, inclusion, employment and more

24/07/2019

A boy who is an unaccompanied minor looks across the beach in Trabia, Italy, on May 14, 2016.

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Questions and answers about sexual violence

Insights on addressing sexual violence to better protect young people on the move.

04/07/2019

Sidi Soukoula (17) poses with his legal guardian Bernarda ‘Benni’ Monaco in Palermo, Italy.

Photo Essay

A guardian’s tale from Sicily

Volunteer legal guardians protect and support refugee and migrant children navigate a new life

24/06/2019

Mohammad “Momo” El Saxed, an 18-year-old Egyptian migrant, with his foster parents in Vittuone, northern Italy.

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A new kind of 21st century family

In Italy, foster care families are taking in migrant children for the first time.

20/06/2019

INTERSOS staffers, part of a UNICEF-supported mobile team, pick up a young girl (2) outside a building where migrants are taking shelter in Rome, Italy.

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In Rome, a decent night’s sleep is not a given

A young migrant family’s struggle to find a safe bed for their kids.

08/05/2019

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One beat at a time

An aspiring rapper’s journey from uncertainty to hope

03/04/2019

Fatou Sanneh (17) behind the coffee bar at the café where she works in Palermo, Italy.

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Recipes for success

Young refugees and migrants embrace and enrich Italian food culture

25/03/2019

Migrant boys, who arrived in Sicily unaccompanied, pose at the remains of a church in the old town of Naro, Sicily.

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Young migrants revitalize Italian village

They’re often city kids, but they’ve been transferred to a rural village in the middle of Sicily.

26/02/2019

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