US: These Children Fled Afghanistan Without Their Families. They’re Stuck in U.S. Custody. (Includes video)
Propublica – March 25, 2022
Seven months after the fall of Kabul, shelters in the U.S. caring for children evacuated without their parents are experiencing unprecedented violence while workers at the facilities have struggled to respond to the young Afghans’ trauma. “This is not acceptable,” said Naheed Samadi Bahram, U.S. country director for the nonprofit Women for Afghan Women, which provides mentors to children in custody in New York. These children “left their homes with a dream to be stable, to be happy, to be safe. If we cannot offer that here in the U.S. that is a big failure.”
Also: Dozens of Traumatized Afghan Kids Struggle Inside a Shelter That’s Ill-Equipped to Care for Them (Includes video): https://www.propublica.org/article/dozens-of-traumatized-afghan-kids-struggle-inside-a-shelter-thats-ill-equipped-to-care-for-them
https://www.propublica.org/article/these-children-fled-afghanistan-without-their-families-theyre-stuck-in-u-s-custody#1282136