Tusla wants foster carers for refugee children seeking protection 

Newly-arrived Afghan refugee children carry their belongings through the Jalozai refugee camp, Pakistan. Tusla has launched a campaign for foster carers to take in separated children seeking international protection. Picture: AP Photo/John McConnico)

Tusla is launching a new campaign seeking foster carers to take in separated children seeking international protection.

The campaign, the first of its kind here, will run from September 6 to 12 and comes as the existing Irish commitment to accept 36 unaccompanied minors from Greece as part of European Union relief efforts comes to an end — and as crises in Afghanistan and elsewhere develop.