"The right to return to the village and not to migrate" from 1994 is one of the founding pillars of the AMWCY.
The question of "migrations, fostering and trafficking" of children was the subject of specific recommendations to the annual conference of the ILO in 1999.
It was an important item on the agenda of the 5th African Meeting (November 2000). On this occasion, the AMWCY clearly distinguished the three practices.

According to them, migration has both positive and negative aspects. As well as the fostering that must never degenerate into exploitation or any other form of abuse to the detriment of the child and therefore must be "reviewed periodically." WCY condemned any kind of traffic and are committed to putting all the weight of their network in the fight against trafficking networks who want to "deal in child labor."

A document containing the first reflections of matter exists in the

the "First Regional Workshop of associations of working children and youth on child trafficking", funded by Plan, SCF and the Regional Office of UNICEF, was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 18 to 26 November 2003 .
In the outlook they have learned, WCYAs of different countries present, multiply the efforts and conduct more joint actions. For this, they have focused on the creation of grassroot groups in communities that recieve Children or send them to another places, and there has been also WCY capacity building reinforcement on communication and listening skills, on collaboration with other actors, partners, NGOs, associations, the press etc

For years the first collaborator of the AMWCY was RWOGAT then, since 2007, with the "Regional Migration Group" constituted by ILO, ENDA, IOM, AMWCY, PLAN, SCF, UNICEF and Terre Des Homme.

Within this framework, it undertook a first study in 2007 entitled "transforming victims into actors' in five countries of West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali and Niger , which led to the Bamako Declaration in October 2007.
Then a second in 2011, entitled "Routes to success?" In Benin, Burkina Faso, and Togo

Its actions

mainly take place in the following countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Conakry, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo.
They are:
• to strengthen education, training and animation in the villages
• inform children and parents on the risks of early migration to the city
• to accompany the children in migration to the towns of their countries, or out of their country
• report cases of abuse or violence made to the children

These actions have resulted to the rise of tools produced to share information, messages, contacts and also improve the quality of interventions in the villages and neighborhoods. These include:
- The image box in 2008
- The Migration Poster in 2008
- The migration leaflets for girls and boys 2010 - 2011
- The AMWCY cartoon in 2010 "it can happen to you, Tounga" 2011.

Some actions are carried out in the strategic crossroads of traffic in West Africa, with children themselves, warning of the dangers that await and false promises made to them by traffickers. Tens of thousands of children were attentively listened to by the WCY.

Any child in migration is regarded as a "friend" in need of support. This solidarity plays whatever the nationality and language spoken by the child. One of the qualities of the AMWCY protection role is that of reaching out to friends who need more support and be installed in areas where the problem exists and is common: in the farm fields, villages, markets, bus stations, etc.. The accompanying action is guaranteed by its geographical coverage, without frontier limits or cultural barriers that are blocking factors for many actors.

Thus, there are more than 87.000 children and youth, in West Africa, who have mobilized themselves to give support to children in migration, to integrate them into their activities thereby reducing their vulnerability and providing the "protective accompaniment "they lack.

The Barcelona conference (October 2010), "Children on the move" gave an opportunity to bring the voice of AMWCY internationally. Since then, an international group of the same name was constituted, to which the AMWCY also contributes