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Bruno Le MaireApr 25 min read

Calais, l’honneur de la République et la faillite de l’Etat de droit !

J’ai passé vendredi l’après…

Ali ReidOct 30, 20153 min read

Your fear is frightening me.

When I made the decision a few weeks ago that as soon as I finished my Degree I was going to get on a plane to fly to the other side of the planet to volunteer in a refugee camp in Calais, my biggest fear was making the flight.

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Ali ReidNov 30, 20156 min read

Calais — Day 9

Day 9 in Calais is one I would rather forget. It was my second weekend here and with experience also comes knowledge that in some instances one would rather not have. What I am getting at is, ignorance can sometimes be bliss.

Daniel TomlinsonSep 16, 201510 min read

The refugee crisis: my week in Calais and some ideas on what action we can take here in the UK.

Last month I was at home in London browsing the internet when I came across this video on the Guardian website. It features a little boy with a swollen and clearly…

Ali ReidJan 274 min read

They’re just economic refugees… until they’re not.

I hear it a lot. “They’re all just a bunch of economic refugees”, because they fail to look emaciated, dressed in rags or physically broken. Despite being expected to look physically broken to be a “real” refugee”, they should never, EVER…

Ali ReidDec 12, 20156 min read

Calais - Day 21

After a night of short intervals of broken sleep in the Jungle, I was up before dawn. I was able to be ready to leave within 10 minutes (haha) because I had nothing to do but leave. I had slept in the clothes I was in the day before having nothing else with me. I pulled my hat on to my head and was…

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Flora BakerJan 1411 min read

The Refugee Crisis: Volunteering in the Calais Warehouse

There is French dirt from the Calais camps coating my clothes. Dust from the warehouse blurring the lenses of my glasses. The cracks in my hands are sore and dried out, and each finger has too many smudges of permanent marker to…