UK’s child refugees tell their unique stories

The traumatic stories of child refugees living in the UK are told in a series of animated short films aimed at schoolchildren during Refugee Week

  • The animated film about Juliane, now aged 12, who became separated from her mother Link to this video

It is not news that millions of children worldwide are displaced by war and human rights violations every year; only recently, we heard of the Syrian children being used as human shields in the conflict. With organisations acting as necessary and admirable mouthpieces for them, however, it means that we rarely get to hear from the children themselves. A new series of animated short films, Seeking Refuge, is seeking to change that.

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