To protect and counsel unaccompanied immigrant child refugees on sexual violence they have experienced, philanthropy can play a key role by supporting nonprofit legal service providers and the recruitment of pro bono attorneys.
Funders should also consider supporting expanded access to independent child advocates to ensure that the system regards the "best interest" of children facing deportation. Training for immigration judges and asylum officers to decide unaccompanied immigrant children's cases should also be considered.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.