Follow CNN More child migrants are arriving alone in Spain's holiday islands than ever before. This is what happens to them By Christopher Johnson Updated 5:53 AM ET, Tue February 23, 2021 Abou, left, from Ivory Coast, is pictured with his foster parents Deli Delgado and Victor Afonso at Corralejo beach, an area where many boats land when they arrive in the Canary Islands from West Africa. (CNN)Elementary school children don't typically venture far from home on their own, but 11-year-old Abou managed to cross a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean, from Africa to Europe, in the hands of strangers. Abou, from West Africa's Ivory Coast, boarded an inflatable dinghy alongside four other children, and a mother and her baby, all bound for the Canary Islands, in search of a better life. They arrived on the island of Fuerteventura in June 2020 after a full day's journey from southern Morocco.