I arrived in the new country alone, without my parents and my family. In the residential care facility where I was living they told me about someone called “the guardian”, a person who helps children who arrive alone as long as they are under 18 years old. At the beginning I didn’t understand well who this person was and, despite the fact that it took some time, I finally got a guardian. I understood that he would have helped me at defending my rights and my interests. Actually this person became my first referent. We became friends, sometimes we ate together and visited the city. Instead, it took very long for some of my friends to get a guardian and some others didn’t even know about the existence of such a figure, so this lack of support brought them some problems.

 

Ask to see your guardian and to know how he is wherever you may arrive and try to establish a close relationship since the guardian can support and help you in defending your interests and your rights.