Jungle

France, 25 of Octuber 2016.

The jungle is situated at a place called Calais, which is on the north coast of France, right near to the UK. Thousands of refugees across Europe and arrived at Calais in order to try to cross the English Channel to reach the UK, where they believed they could live a better life.

Calais is one of the main ports for traveling from France to England, with lots of vehicles, ships and trains that travel to England from here. This means they had to set up temporary homes at Calais. As a result, the jungle had become home to thousands of people, desperate to finish their journey and make a new start in the UK.

The Jungle has become a powerful symbol of Europe’s failure to cope with the migrant crisis.

Currently well over 1,200 refugees and migrants, including lone children, scattered around northern France Living in tents and informal camps, they have no regular access to food, water, sanitation, shelter or legal assistance and are subject to routine evictions, harassment, abuse and violence at the hands of the police.