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No child should be forced to leave his or her family and country to escape from wars, dictatorships and extreme poverty. Unfortunately, however, this happens more and more often. The number of refugees in the world has never been so high, and many of them are underage boys and girls, sometimes young children, who travel alone.
Every year, since 2010, Save the Children Italy has created an "Atlas" to investigate the situation of children and adolescents in Italy. In 2017, the organization decided to publish an Atlas dedicated to unaccompanied foreign minors, to have a deeper understanding…
The general objective of the project "Children Come First: Intervention at the border" is to strengthen the system of protection and reception of migrant children arriving in Italy, whether they are separated or accompanied by their parents.
As part of the project, Save the Children Italy elaborates and disseminates, on a quarterly basis, a dossier containing quantitative and qualitative information (profiles) relating to migrant minors entering Italy. This dossier (written in Italian) contains information relating to the quarter October-December 2016, but it also provides a brief summary…
This is Save the Children's decalogue for child support in emergencies.
In emergencies, be they natural or man-made catastrophes, children are the most vulnerable. They risk losing their home, being separated from their family members or losing them, not being able to attend school, or having to give up their daily habits and live outside of own habitual contexts.
In an emergency, Save the Children takes action by setting up "Child-Friendly Spaces" and developing recreational, educational and psychosocial support activities to provide a safe place in which children and young people can…