CrowdJustice Success Story: Fighting for child refugees
The Dunkirk refugee camp in France was housing at least 100 unaccompanied children living in dangerous conditions. A group of volunteers raised £33,046 to challenge the UK Government’s exclusion of these children from the Dubs Amendment, which offers safe refuge in the UK for refugee children.
The Dunkirk Legal Support Team (DLST) believed that the UK Government had been ignoring these vulnerable children and that the UK government was not living up to commitments made in Parliament to give sanctuary to a certain number of unaccompanied children.
After crowdfunding efforts in which 750 people supported the DLST, the team successfully applied pressure to the Government, which quickly announced 130 more places under the Dubs Amendment. If not for the pressure of these advocates, it is unlikely the Government would have taken such action and helped more unaccompanied children into the country, and out of the dangerous confines of Dunkirk.
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