Refugee children

The city of Athens and the non-profit organization, The HOME Project, signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday to provide high-quality services for unaccompanied refugee children residing in Athens.

Refugee children on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos in the jerseys of Spanish soccer giant Barcelona.

The Education Ministry's regional director for the northern Aegean, Aristidis Kalargalis, is due on Thursday to meet with the prosecutor of Samos to explore ways to stop a group of local parents from keeping pupils out of school in protest at the admission of migrant and refugee children from the island's camps.

On Saturday European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides will visit the ACS Athens campus to observe the school's Youth-to-Youth educational and social integration program in action, meet with young refugees and talk to volunteer teachers and ACS students.

An EU official on Oct. 25 applauded Turkey's "fantastic" efforts for providing education to hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugee children in the country.

"My Athens Project" is a compilation of stories written by the children that live at shelters run by The  HOME Project in the Greek capital.

The idea for the project came about in the context of the international nonprofit organization's mission to integrate unaccompanied refugee children and young adults into Greek society.

‘Never Leave Me’, about Syrian refugee children and orphans, is one of several films about war and its consequences in the Middle East and the Balkans that are being screened at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival.

Almost 2,800 migrant and refugee children staying at facilities across Greece attended school in 2018 with help for a second year from a European Union-funded transportation service, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.

Turkey continues to host the largest number of school-aged refugee children and youth, which increased to 976,200 in 2017 from 833,039 in 2016, with efforts provided increasing enrollment in primary schools, yet access to secondary education is still low, an expert said.

Sixty percent of refugee children in Turkey have at least one type of psychological illness, according to Dr. Veysi Çeri from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Department at Marmara University's Pendik Training and Education Hospital.