More than 300 migrant children have died attempting the Turkey-Greece sea crossing in the six months since the much-publicised death of Syrian child Aylan Kurdi.
The image of the three-year old washed up on a Turkish beach on September 2 changed public opinion and reignited EU efforts to deal with the refugee influx.
Brussels extended a scheme to relocate migrants from some of the worst-hit countries in the EU and allowed the temporary reintroduction of border controls in a bid to manage the crisis.
Earlier in the year the Commission upped its search and rescue operations at sea and allocated more than 70 million euros in emergency funding.
Yet children are still drowning in waters between Turkey and Greece, averaging around two-a-day between September last year and January.
October was the worst month, with 84 children losing their lives, half of them on one of the deadliest days, Wednesday 28th.
The mounting death toll comes amid a trend of more women and children attempting to cross from Turkey to Greece.
In June last year one-in-ten of refugees and migrants registered at the border of Greece and Macedonia were children, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
That figure rose to just one-in-three by October, a change driven by refugee families wanting to reunite.
