Small charity’s dedicated volunteers are helping vulnerable young people forced to seek shelter in squalid, dangerous places • CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO OUR APPEAL When Karim’s father sent him, aged 17, from Kabul to find safety in Europe, he hoped to get work in his uncle’s supermarket in Germany. Earlier this month he was selling drugs on the streets of Athens to make money for food. He considers himself relatively lucky, since other teenagers from Afghanistan have turned to prostitution in the nearby park to earn money to survive, though he does concede that this is not what his father, an academic, had in mind for him. “I escaped Afghanistan for a good future. This was unexpected,” he said, pacing around a corner of Victoria Square, a seedy part of central Athens, at about midnight in early December. When he speaks to his parents he doesn’t tell them about the difficulties he faces. “All the time I think about going back.” Related: Please help us help #childrefugees survive the winter - Guardian/Observer 2016 Appeal Related: 'Prisoners of Europe': the everyday humiliation of refugees stuck in Greece Continue reading...
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