Within just 48 hours of receiving the relevant request, a METAdrasi escort arrived in Crete to pick up a 4-year-old girl from Iraq who was being hosted at the General Hospital of Heraklion.
The goal was her immediate and safe transfer to an appropriate accommodation facility in Athens, where she would be able to receive the protection and care she needs.
Every accompaniment support mission is a journey of protection.
Since November 2025, METAdrasi’s activity “Escorting missions for unaccompanied children” is implemented in the framework of the project “Strengthening protection systems for unaccompanied migrant children and vulnerable women applicants and beneficiaries of international protection” funded by the National Development Program for the Programming Period 2021-2025 through the Special Coordination and Management Service for Migration and Home Affairs Programmes of the Ministry of Migration and Asylum.
From 1 November 2025 to date, more than 1,150 unaccompanied children have been escorted.
In this effort, the support of Attica Group has been invaluable. Through Blue Star Ferries, Hellenic Seaways and Anek Lines, the Group provides free transportation. Attica Group has stood firmly by METAdrasi’s side for years and, once again this year, has offered free tickets for the children and their escorts. We warmly thank them for their continued and meaningful support.
