The project, by the Refugee Youth Service, has been carried out with children who arrived in Ventimiglia, Italy, close to the French border. They came to Italy after crossing the Mediterranean from Libya. The organisation gave the children mobile phones so their progress could be surveyed and tried to connect them with local support groups as they travelled.
The children made drawings that showed the reasons for their journeys and the difficulties they had faced – from an image of violence in Sudan to a sketch of stick figures shouting “help” on a flimsy, overcrowded dinghy.
They have faced concerted efforts from border forces across Europe to keep them out. Many of the children are illegally pushed back into Italy by border police after making it into France. Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/13/injured-hunted-lost-mapping-journeys-of-refugee-children-aiming-for-uk?CMP=share_btn_fb