Accoglierete

Accoglierete is an association based in Syracuse, Sicily that supports unaccompanied migrant children  arriving in Sicily. They provide cultural mediation, legal support in the form of Legal guardians to represent the child in the judicial system, psychological support and family connection among other activities.

Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/AccoglieRete/

The nature photography project

The Migrantchild storytelling project has inspired other forms of storytelling using  cameras. For example nature storytelling projects have been conducted in both the UK and Guatemala. these projects aim to connect children more closely to the their natural environment through  exploration, photography and storytelling. More information here: https://journals.lww.com/invn/fulltext/2022/20010/the_nature_photography_project__a_creative.15.aspx

An example of the childrens work can be seen here: https://www.penwithlandscape.org.uk/art-and-activities/nature-photography-project-with-mousehole-school/

The Migrant Diaries

Lynne Jones blog  describes her experiences of working with migrants in Mexico, Italy, France and Greece, including setting up and running the story telling workshops.

Click the links to read more about working with migrant children in Mexico 2017 or France 2017.

More stories and photographs collected here: https://www.refugepress.com/books/the-migrant-diaries

Climate Refugee Teaching Activity

For an example of how the stories on the Migrant Child Storytelling site can be used in classrooms or workshops to teach about migration, read about and download this free lesson from the Zinn Education Project.

In this role play, based on the stories of six young people whose lives have been changed by the climate refugee crisis, students try to imagine what it is like for a person to have “no option except escape.” The role play is based on the lives of real people. Two of the roles are inspired by stories from the Migrant Child Storytelling site.

Click here to learn more about the project.

MISSING MIGRANTS PROJECT

The Missing Migrants Project tracks incidents involving migrants, including refugees and asylum-seekers, who have died or gone missing in the process of migration towards an international destination. The Missing Migrants Project is an important hub and advocacy source of information that media, researchers, and the general . public can access for the latest information. “Our message is blunt: migrants are dying who need not. It is time to do more than count the number of deaths. It is time to engage the world to stop this violence against desperate migrants.” IOM Director General William Lacy Swing. Learn more by clicking here

International Organisation for Migration

The leading international organisation for migration, IOM acts with its partners in the international community to: assist in meeting the growing operational challenges of migration management; advance understanding of migration issues; and to encourage social and economic development through migration, and uphold the human dignity and well-being of migrants.

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United Nations High Commission for Refugees

The UN agency responsible for refugees and works ‘to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution, war or disaster at home’. You can follow the links on their website to get up to date information about refugee situations in different countries.

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UNICEF

UNICEF works around the world to help make sure migrant and refugee children are protected and that their rights are respected. “We provide lifesaving humanitarian supplies in refugee camps. We run child-friendly spaces – safe places where migrant and refugee children can play, where mothers can rest and feed their babies in private, where separated families can reunite. We support national and local governments to put in place laws, policies, systems and public services that are inclusive of refugee and migrant children, address their specific needs and help them thrive.”

Click to learn more about UNICEF’s work with uprooted children

Human Rights Watch

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights which publishes reports and briefings on human rights conditions in some 90 countries and advocates  for changes in policy and practice that promote human rights and justice around the world. It covers the issues pertaining to child migrants and refugees extensively.

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Choose Love

Choose Love Began as Help Refugees in 2015.

Today it does  works  “to provide refugees and displaced people with everything from lifesaving search and rescue boats to food and legal advice. We elevate the voices and visibility of refugees and galvanise public support for agile community organisations providing vital support to refugees along migration routes globally.”

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Amnesty International

A global movement of more than 7 million people who take injustice personally. It campaigns for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. Through detailed research and determined campaigning, Amnesty fights abuses of human rights worldwide.  This includes campaigning for the rights of people on the move.

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University

Harvard FXB is an interdisciplinary center that conducts rigorous investigation of the most serious threats to health and wellbeing globally. We work closely with scholars, students, the international policy community, and civil society to engage in ongoing strategic efforts to promote equity and dignity for those oppressed by grave poverty and stigma around the world. One are of interest is Children on the Move

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Safe Passage

Through a combination of operational delivery, litigation, and political advocacy, Safe Passage helps unaccompanied children, as well as vulnerable adults, access safe legal routes to asylum. We believe that no one who has a legitimate claim to asylum should risk their lives trying to reach safety.When clients arrive in the UK, Safe passage also support their transition to a new life.

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Terre Des Hommes

The Terre Des Hommes foundation is committed to protecting children’s lives and their rights, and improving their well-being. We aim to do so through innovative programmes focused on health, migration and access to justice, specially designed to have both short- and long-term impacts.

“At a time when half the displaced people in the world are aged under 18, Terre des hommes is committed to providing support to children and young people before, during and after their migration experience, to protecting and defending their rights while reducing their vulnerability, and fostering their integration and independence, wherever they might be – on migration routes, in refugee camps, or at their destination. ”

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L’Auberge des Migrantes

Since 2008, L’Auberge Des Migrants has worked with people in exile in Calais and the North of France, providing direct material aid, support and advocacy. Through our actions, we fight to promote a dignified, unconditional and appropriate welcome for all.

Current projects include the woodyard which since 2016, has purchased, received, cut, split and distributed wood to all camps on the northern France-United Kingdom border. It participates in the emergency humanitarian response aimed at covering the basic and primary needs of people in exile during the cold season. And the Channel info project which aims to reduce this considerable lack of access to information and coordinates with a network of organizations in France, the UK and the EU to gather and disseminate multilingual, reliable and regular information updates. We also advocate for dignified and sustainable access to services providing a response to the essential needs of people on the move, so that they can make the most informed choices possible during their journey of exile.