We just don’t have the capacity to look after them all

In a yellow, concrete dorm building for refugee children located just outside the city center, there's a room at the end of a long, dark hallway. A group of children, ages 7  to 16, huddle in the doorway, peering in at its exotic content: a pool table. Inside, children wield cues, slapping balls wildly across the green felt table, betting candy bars on the outcome of the games.
For these refugee children, pool is an unknown -- but welcome -- distraction from painful memories of their lives before they landed in Germany, leaving behind homes in the war-torn states of Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Sudan. The game has become a way to pass the time amid hours of sitting in stairwells and playing on their phones or lying on their beds in their rooms waiting for the next meal.
But that lone diversion is slated to disappear. The pool table was set to be removed to make space for more children -- a minor accommodation that speaks to the crisis sweeping Europe. As a torrent of refugees reaches its shores, there remains variations of the same basic question: What should they do with all these young people?

“We just don’t have the capacity to look after them all.”

Last year, 24,000 unaccompanied minors -- children traveling without a parent -- applied for asylum in the European Union. This year, the numbers are likely to be much higher, according to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Estimates by international aid organizations suggested that between 4 and 7 percent of the approximately 700,000 asylum applications made in 2015 came from unaccompanied minors. So many have arrived on the shores of Greece that the international aid organization Save the Children told International Business Times that they have no way of tracking them all.
This home in Munich is already at full capacity. The children have to eat in shifts, share rooms with more than 10 others and take turns on bicycles in the basement. Public services are also limited: A couple of volunteer teachers and a single doctor serve the 95 children who reside there.
Aside from the occasional group activity or German class, the teenagers largely are left to fend for themselves. And while the accommodation is clean and residents are given three meals a day, children go missing “almost on a daily basis,” Eva Ramsauer, the home’s psychologist, said.
“We just don’t have the capacity to look after them all.”

 http://www.ibtimes.com/overwhelmed-thousands-refugee-children-traveling-alone-europe-considers-adoption-2125338