Despite the fact that borders in Europe are closed, children traveling alone continue to attempt a dangerous and impossible journey to find safety. They are at risk of being exploitated by smugglers and beaten by border guards with limited, coordinated services and support in place across the Balkans to ensure their safety and protection. This is the story of one 17-year-old from Afghanistan currently stranded in Serbia.

Actor and IRC ambassador Mandy Patinkin and wife Kathryn Grody traveled to Greece and Serbia to meet brave and resilient refugees who are caught in a desperate and lengthy limbo. Read story.

Farhad, a talented young artist, is just one of 3,000 refugee children currently in Serbia. He wants to study painting and become famous someday. Most of all, he wants a place he can call home. This is his story.

Together Sesame Street's Grover and International Rescue Committee ambassador Mandy Patinkin are on a mission to help refugee children. Learn more about the IRC's partnership with Sesame Workshop to address the educational needs of young Syrian refugees in the Middle East.

At least a half million Syrian refugee children live in Lebanon. Many have no choice but to work on the streets or in the fields to help their families survive. The International Rescue Committee gives them a safe place to play, learn, and just be kids. Meet a group of children as they spend a day in one of these safe spaces dressing up in superhero costumes and talking about their secret superpowers.

Humans can survive 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food. But how long can we survive without a safe place to call home? Join Rashida Jones as she visits Syrian refugees in limbo in Lebanon in the International Rescue Committee's virtual reality experience (scroll down to see the VR embedded in the linked article).    

Muhammed Ali was just five days old when he and his family fled their home in war-torn Aleppo, Syria. Like many families, they had to split up to find safety. The four-year-old is now living in a camp in northern Greece with his mother and two of his siblings. His father and sister Noora are in Germany.

With help from the International Rescue Committee and an aviation school in Jordan, two sisters from Syria and their Jordanian friend -- a future pilot, a future flight attendant and a future astronaut -- made their dream of flight a reality. Read their full story.

Yousef Al-Masri turns heads every day as he commutes to his volunteer job at an IRC-run health clinic in Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan.   A long walk to work prompted the 50-year-old anesthesiologist from Syria to devise a better way to get around the sprawling camp.

From Idomeni, Greece: a heart-warming story of a Syrian family who couldn’t leave behind their beloved cat when they fled to Europe for safety and a new life.