Syrian Refugee Family Reunited

Kids Reunited is a partnership with a single goal: bringing unaccompanied minors (refugees) back to their relatives in the EU.
In Greece alone, there are currently almost 3500 registered, unaccompanied minors waiting to see their families again. According to EU legislation, these minors are legally entitled to reunification. But the overstretched and inefficient system in Greece and in the receiving countries (partly caused by a lack of political will in many EU member states) creates a process of reunification that can takes up to two years.
Kids Reunited is a partnership of legal partners, technical partners, journalists, a support team and coordinators. Together they will speed up this process. They have the following roles:
the Support team contains highly skilled volunteers and different NGO staff members who are identifying together the unaccompanied minors in Greece.
the Legal team. Professionals who legally support the minors in the reunification process on a case-by-case basis.
the Awareness team. This team of journalists are making the public at large aware of the impact of long term separation from their families and the vunerable situation (Unaccompanied minors are a prey for traffickers).
the Technical Team aims to create tools that can alleviate the strain on overstretched systems and protect the data of the minors against traffickers. The coming period they will create an online tool (based on Blockchain) that will easily document and process their data.
the Coordinators. The coordinators are responsible for the cohesion of the teams, the progress of the organization and a first point of contact for interested people and organisations.
The combination of areas of expertise in this collaboration offers the groundwork to put pressure on the political system, on a national level and on EU level. Finally it needs to significantly improve the system and bring these families together again.