For the children of Afghanistan, a long walk across Europe

January 30, 2012 17:39

Caroline Brothers reports in the Guardian, UK, of incredible stories of the boys of Afghanistan who walked to Euruope. 'Scores of Afghan teenagers are in transit across Europe, in flight from violence or the aftershocks of violence that affect children in particularly harsh ways. Those who turn up in Paris have spent up to a year on the road, on the same clandestine routes as adults, but at far greater risk.

'No one knows how many unaccompanied Afghan children have made it to Europe. Paris took in just over 300 in 2011 -- the biggest nationality among the 1,700 lone foreign minors in its care.

'Sarah Di Giglio, a child-protection expert with Save the Children in Italy, says that last year the number of Afghan boys -- there are almost never girls -- passing through a day centre in Rome had doubled from the year before, to 635.'

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