UNHCR - Lone refugee children go from homelessness in Greece to new lives across Europe
Legislative changes in Greece and a relocation programme have helped hundreds of unaccompanied refugee children get off the streets.
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Legislative changes in Greece and a relocation programme have helped hundreds of unaccompanied refugee children get off the streets.
Legislative changes in Greece and a relocation programme have helped hundreds of unaccompanied refugee children get off the streets.
Last modified on Tue 20 Apr 2021 02.22 EDT At some point in his journey to a freer place, Ahtisham Khan came to a fork in the road. Fifty days of travel from his native Pakistan to the plains of northern Greece had been unexpectedly frightening and exhausting. âWe had a lot of dreams,â he says, recalling why he and his brother, Zeeshan, left their village close to the city of Haripur in Pakistan. âWe were teenagers ⦠we didnât know what we were embarking on. We did what we had to do to survive.â The road divided for the brothers when Khan, then 16, ended up in po...