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Lora Pappa, left, president and CEO of METAdrasi shares the podium with 19-year-old Carl Axel Prince Soami Mbadinga, currently a student at the Institute of Technology in France. He came to Greece from Gabon in 2017 as a refugee, without family, and became the first unaccompanied minor placed in a METAdrasi independent living program. They appeared together at the awarding of the Hilton Humanitarian Prize to METAdrasi Oct. 18. (GSR photo/Chris Herlinger)