Raahim's Story
They took me here to Baca and then I started a new life. When I first arrived at Baca, I was happy because my only goal was just to go somewhere, start education and do my studies.
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Safe to heal
Free to thrive
A world where all child refugees are welcomed, safe and inspired with hope to rebuild their lives for a better future.
Welcome Christmas Appeal 2025
This Christmas, help us stand with unaccompanied child refugees. Your support will give children who arrive alone the safety and care, rest and sense of belonging they deserve.
Together, we can turn passion into a welcoming community.
Your welcome supports rest.
Your welcome invites hope.
Your welcome stands in solidarity.
Did you know?
Among the world's refugees, there is a significant overrepresentation of children. Children make up less than one-third of the global population, but represent over 41 per cent of the world's refugee population in 2022.
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The number of unaccompanied children making dangerous journeys across the Channel to seek asylum in the last three years has increased threefold.
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Young people sent to adult accommodation
From January to June 2023, 69 local authorities received 1,004 referrals to their children’s services department of young people who had been sent to adult accommodation/detention.
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a week
Between June 2021 and March 2022, unaccompanied children went missing from the hotels at an average rate of one every week.
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Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children can be some of the most vulnerable in our care, having often faced dreadful exploitation from traffickers, and appalling conditions both at home and on their journey to the UK.
Vicky Ford, Families Minister, July 2022
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