People often ask me, “What country are you from?”
I wish I could answer that I am HUMAN!
🧡 These words were shared with us by a 15-year-old unaccompanied child from Afghanistan, as our colleague accompanied him from an Aegean Island towards a shelter in Athens.
For METAdrasi’s team of accompaniment support, moments like this are both heartbreaking and deeply hopeful. Our trained escorts travel across Greece with unaccompanied and separated children, ensuring they are safely transferred from precarious conditions to suitable accommodation facilities where they can finally begin to feel protected, supported, and — most importantly — treated as children again.
Behind every accompaniment mission is a child with dreams, fears, and an identity that goes far beyond borders and documents.
“Our role is not just to move children from one place to another. We listen to their stories. We try, in every possible way, to remind them that they are not alone.”
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.
