First off, the evidence that unaccompanied minors find themselves in Europe alone and separated from their loved ones as part of a deliberate plan to get a better life for their families is at best flimsy.
If you are traveling as an unaccompanied minor, find out about the airlines policy.
A team of Italian doctors examining unaccompanied children found that fifty per cent of them suffered from sexually transmitted diseases.
Since last week, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and its partners have identified and registered some 200 unaccompanied children found in orphanages and wandering in neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince.
While it continues daily delivery of critical life-saving supplies such as water, nutrition, shelter and medicine (so far, UNICEF supplies for 250,000 children have arrived and are being distributed), UNICEF and partners like Save the Children have also begun registering unaccompanied children found in the streets of Port au Prince.
Safe Passage was set up in 2015 by the social action charity Citizens UK to help unaccompanied child refugees find safe and legal routes to sanctuary.
The individual details of children's schools and home addresses were supplied in response to requests from the Home Office's absconder tracing team looking for parents who had disappeared after being told they faced deportation or trying to find unaccompanied child asylum seekers who have gone missing.
They go out and find unaccompanied minors on the streets, they have a shelter where they serve free food every day and provide a safe place to sleep; they offer psychological support, legal support, and access to social workers; and now they're focusing more on education to empower the youth and equip them with the skills and confidence they'll need to succeed in the future.
"This is becoming less like an immigration issue and much more like a refugee issue," says Wendy Young, executive director of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), a DC-based nonprofit that helps unaccompanied immigrant kids find pro bono legal services.
You can find unaccompanied children like the ones Ahmadou cares for in just about any of the hundreds of tent dwellings that dot Dar Es Salam's sparse landscape.
