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Timely warning over migrant children

By Agence France-presse in Athens, Greece | China Daily | Updated: 2016-10-13 08:08

Greece will need a year to provide adequate shelter for 2,200 unaccompanied migrant children, the country's migration minister said on Tuesday.

Yannis Mouzalas said there were now no more than 25 minors held in Greek police stations and 1,000 hosted in specialised facilities.

But most of the unaccompanied migrant children, some 1,200, are still staying in camps scattered across Greek islands in the eastern Aegean sea.

"It would be lying to say a solution will be found in under six months. We think a year is necessary," Mouzalas said during the opening of a shelter for 100 such children in Paiania, a suburb of Athens.

Five percent of the 2,200 children are under 8 years old, while 80 percent are over 15.

The minister said the top priority was to provide "safe places" for the children, where they enjoy a minimum of protection against threats such as traffickers, the minister said.

In September, the European Union and human rights organizations called on Greece to improve shelter for unaccompanied migrant children, saying many were held in squalid conditions.

Also in September, the EU announced 115 million euros ($127m) in extra funding for Greece's response to migrants on its soil, following a damning report on conditions migrants face.

The new shelter in Paiania, which is jointly managed and funded by the International Organization for Migration and the NGO Medecins du Monde, is supposed to serve as a model for future facilities, with around 30 specialised staff and on-site schooling.

Ministry official Alkis Souliotis said most of the minors want to leave the country, either because they have relatives who have already traveled elsewhere in Europe, or because they believe they will better integrate outside Greece, with its high unemployment rate.

"Our job is to convince them to stay," he added, noting that if the children moved on they ran the risk of falling victim to trafficking networks.

Local authorities are supporting the two organisations running the Paiania shelter, which for IOM's Daniel Esdrass is important at a time when tensions between refugees and host communities are on the rise in Greece.

"We have to fight against the 'not in my backyard' syndrome," he said.

Timely warning over migrant children

Young refugees enter a primary school in Athens on Monday, the first day of the new migrant education program.Petros Giannakouris / Associated Press

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