Starting November 2016 until June 2017, Terre des hommes and the Bulgarian Red Cross succeeded in improving the daily lives of hundreds of children and young people living in three Reception Centres of the State Agency for Refugees in Sofia.

In Macedonia, Terre des hommes, together with its partner Open Gate La Strada, works with children and families who are in transit centres. We provide the affected children with psychosocial support and information. Our mobile teams also organise humanitarian aid in the field and monitor the informal transit places of refugees to help the ones in need.

Within the framework of Mario Project, a Greek delegation, led by Mr. George Moschos, Deputy Ombudsman in charge of children’s rights and the representatives of ARSIS Organisation met with the Chairperson of the State Agency for Child Protection (SACP) – Ms Ofelia Kaneva, the Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria – Ms. Maya Manolova and the Secretary of the National Commission for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (NCCTHB) – Ms. Kamelia Dimitrova. The reprsentatives discussed the possibility to reach a bilateral agreement between the Greek and Bulgarian authorities addressing the problems of Bulgarian children in street situation in Greece, unaccompanied minors, migrant and refugee children.

Neglected Children Society – ECPAT Bulgaria initiated and organized the visits of the Greek delegation as part of the implementation of Mario Project in Bulgaria. 

Through the analysis of the situation at the border and in the pre-transit zone of Hungary,
this report gives evidence on the inappropriate treatment of migrant families with children
and urges authorities to address the insupportable situation. The report recommends
Hungarian authorities to provide migrant families and UAMs with humane and child friendly
reception condition and basic services at the border.

The purpose of this capacity building package is to build the capacity of those responding to the refugee and migrant crisis to be able to address child protection concerns within the unique settings of the largely transit countries, in particular Croatia, Serbia and the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (tfYROM).

In the context of the refugee crisis in the Balkan region and the closure of the "Balkan route corridor", the "Making a Difference for Refugee Children in Europe" project aims at supporting refugee children, with a special focus on unaccompanied and separated children (UASC). 

On the occasion of the World Day against Child Labour, Tdh releases a new study on child labour among refugees of the Syrian conflict.

The Humanitarian Visa campaign calls on the European Union and other industrialized countries to provide humanitarian visas to refugees, which could provide essential shelter and protection to people affected by conflict.

The network of partners of the Mario project share the grave concerns expressed by UN agencies regarding the poor and precarious conditions that refugees are facing at the transit and asylum centers in Macedonia.

Information sheet about Tdh's emergency intervention in South East Europe.