Ljubljana, 8 April 2025 – The Ministry of the Interior, the managing authority for EU home affairs funds, has approved the project Providing accommodation and care for unaccompanied minors.
Unaccompanied minors are underage children who have come to Slovenia without parents or legal guardians. As such, they are in an extremely vulnerable situation. They are also at a higher risk of sexual or physical abuse, exploitation or crime. In fact, a group of journalists from several EU countries recently carried out an investigation. It revealed that between 2021 and 2023 at least 51,433 unaccompanied minors went missing after arriving in Europe.
The project Providing accommodation and care for unaccompanied minors is carried out by the Government Office for the Support and Integration of Migrants. Supportive and safe environments allow underage children to develop their potentials. They make them more motivated to learn and integrate into the educational system, and, later, into the labour market. As part of the project, accommodation facilities for unaccompanied minors will undergo renovation and new systemic solutions will be designed for accommodation and care for unaccompanied minors. These solutions will remain in place after the end of the project.
The €6,877,777.78 project has received €6,190,000.00 from the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund.
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