Ahtisham Khan arrived in Greece,aged 16, after leaving Pakistan. A unique initiative is helping children like him find a secure domestic where they can start to rebuild their livesAt some point in his journey to a freer place, and 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.We had a lot of dreams,” he says, recalling why he and his brother, and Zeeshan,left their village close to the city of Haripur in Pakistan. “We were teenagers … we didn’t know what we were embarking on. We did what we had to do to survive.”In the five years of our operation we’ve only seen children wanting to give back Related: EU announces funding for five unique refugee camps on Greek islands Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com