Disappearance of 4,5-year-old Roder Othman and 5 year-old Othman Alnd

Roder is 90 cm tall, weights 15 kg, has brown hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a black track suit, a blue shirt, a black jacket and blue shoes.

 Alnd is 90 cm tall, weights 20 kg, has black hair and black eyes. He was wearing a blue jean, blue shirt and blue shoes.

Over the past two years Greece and its neighboring countries in the Mediterranean Sea have seen a great increase of refugees and migrants arriving by sea with most of them attempting to reach other Member States of the European Union. In 2014, around 43.000 refugees and migrants arrived by sea in Greece, an increase of 300% comparing to the previous year. 

Until today, more than 644.000 refugees and migrants have arrived in Europe by sea. Out of them 34% are women and children. According to the most recent statement of the UNHCR, more than 700.000 people entered into the European Union, 20% of which are children, whereas 3.210 people have lost their lives or have gone missing. 

Under these conditions a major risk exists for children going missing or falling victim to smugglers and traffickers. We are focusing especially on the protection of refugee and migrant children, unaccompanied minors and children on the move and without parental care. In most of these cases international cooperation and coordination with agencies and other non-governmental organizations is required. The Smile of the Child is taking the initiative through the European Hotline for Missing Children 116 000 to launch an international mobilization effort among all competent actors with the aim to locate the missing unaccompanied refugee minors.

At the same time, the services of “The Smile of the Child” have been deployed to the fullest, in order to support children and their families and it cooperates with all the competent actors, public agencies, non-profit and non-governmental Organizations on a case by case basis.

Anyone who has any information should contact “The Smile of the Child” Organization, on a 24 hours basis, and the European Hotline for Missing Children 116 000 as well as any police department across the country.

Please be so kind to publish this press release. In the possible event of locating the child we would inform you with a new press release requesting the removal of the missing posters and related information.

For more information contact:

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

European Hotline for Missing Children 116 000

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“The Smile of the Child” in the field of Missing Minors

“The Smile of the Child” in the framework of the international partnerships that has developed, has the know-how to handle with professionalism and expertise cases of missing minors. On the international level, “The Smile of the Child” is: 

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Washington-based International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC)

• Member of Missing Children Europe Federation (MCE)

• Member of Child Helpline International (CHI)

• Associated member of the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI).

• Recognized member with special consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC).

• Member of Global Missing Children’s Network (GMCN) – www.missingkids.com

• Member of the European Federation for Street Children (EFSC)

• Member of Eurochild network for children’s rights.

 In the effort of the Organization to take action and stand by those children who have gone missing and are at risk, we create, print and post missing posters across our country, always in cooperation with the Greek authorities. We are also cooperating with media and other actors that could be of help to locating missing minors.