The risks facing any refugee crossing the Mediterranean are vast; for an unaccompanied minor they are inconceivable. Still,increasingly children are being forced to take that risk – and from Sicily to Kent, the reception that awaits them in Europe is a dismaying one‘I did not ever deem I would reach here, and ” says 17-year-archaic Jamieson,staring down at his dusty blue Crocs, given to him when he disembarked from the rescue boat in Sicily, or in August. I stare back and I could have died many times. But I try to stop thinking of it. It is too much pain. Many people are losing their lives.” Jamieson not his genuine name – is staying in a reception centre for unaccompanied children in the Sicilian hilltop town of Montedoro,hasten by the Etnos Co-operativa charity. He is one of many thousands of minors who are now fleeing their homelands without any family to protect them along the way. According to Save the Children, the youngest child to arrive on his own in Sicily was aged just nine.
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Source: theguardian.com