Refugee and migrant children

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

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

18/10/2017

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

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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

Sirin, 9, at the Blue Refugee Centre providing after-school support for refugee and migrant children in Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Inspired to become a teacher

After-school support helps Sirin reach for her dreams in Greece

23/05/2019

Refugee and migrant children in a classroom in Greece.

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Over 40,000 refugee and migrant children and women in Greece supported by UNICEF with European Union funding

23/05/2019

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

Osama, 12, at the Moria Refugee Reception and Identification Centre, Lesvos, Greece.

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Osama’s Journey from Yemen to Greece

A 12-year-old boy who escaped conflict searches for safety and opportunity

29/03/2019

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

Mohamed siting outside with the book he took on his journey form Afghanistan.

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The book you don't leave behind

Mohamed (13), on his journey from Afghanistan to Serbia

21/02/2019

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