One day, I translated for a young Pakistani man who had just tested positive for HIV. I sometimes work as an interpreter at the local hospital. I don’t know the nationality of their clients but almost all of them speak Greek and most of them are much older than the boys. These young people have no adequate shelter and no way of making money and, ultimately, they are just left to fend for themselves as best they can.Īt best, these young people are paid €50 per client, sometimes less than €10.
They also don’t get any governmental aid. Some of the problem comes from the fact that Afghan refugees face a lot of discrimination. They are living in tents in refugee camps and they don’t have any other work. These young boys are in a desperate situation. When people are just trying to survive and to fulfil their most basic needs, they are capable of doing all kinds of things. He sees Afghan refugees on a daily basis. works with a humanitarian orgranisation based in Athens. "The clients don’t care about these boys”Ali A. Sometimes, the actual act is carried out at the client’s house but, more often than not, the boys end up just going into the bushes with their client. Every night, several dozen young men congregate in Victoria park, Pedion tou Areos park and on the Omonia Square to sell themselves. Migrants of all ages also face widespread discrimination.īecause they have no access to the labour market, many end up having to turn to illegal trades, such as prostitution, to survive. With no source of income, most end up living in tent cities with no hot water or electricity. Their young age - some of them are barely 15 - makes them especially vulnerable in already precarious conditions.
Most of the young migrants you see in these public squares are Afghan and some are very young. Despite the continuing efforts of numerous NGOs, some young migrants - especially unaccompanied minors - find themselves caught up in illegal trades, including drugs, human trafficking and, most frequently, prostitution. It’s almost impossible for them to find work or decent housing, so they while away their days in public spaces. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Town squares and parks in Athens, Greece, are filled with migrants who idle there, trapped in limbo between Turkey and Europe. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls.
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