No Child Alone: Greek government announces new policy to protect migrant children

Emma Wallis - Info Migrants

According to this article from Info Migrants, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has announced a new scheme designed to protect unaccompanied migrant minors who have arrived in Greece. As part of the scheme, the Prime Minister said that the government will "quickly settle" the 4,000 children living on the Aegean islands under "miserable conditions," and find places on the mainland for them where they can live "and be fed as is dictated by their tender age." The article links to a short video produced by UNICEF which exposed some of the "miserable conditions" faced by young unaccompanied minors in Greece, following young people from Afghanistan, Syria and West Africa as they went about their new lives in Section B (reserved for unaccompanied minors) of the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. The article highlights some of the work being done by UNICEF and the Greek government to address overcrowding and other issues faced by these unaccompanied minors.