
On the 23rd of February Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum, Notis Mitarachi, and Swiss State Secretary for Migration, Christine Schraner Burgener, signed the first support measure agreement within the framework of the Swiss-Greek Cooperation program. With this support measure, Greece and Switzerland support five Emergency Accomodation Facilities for Unaccompanied Migrant Children on mainland Greece.
Newly arrived unaccompanied migrant children in precarious living conditions are placed in Emergency Accomodation Facilities where they have access to basic services and receive professional care by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). These facilities play an integral role in the National Emergency Response Mechanism, which was initiated in 2021 in order to decrease the number of unaccompanied migrant children in precarious living conditions.