This week is Refugee Week, the UK’s largest festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of people in the refugee community, and…
Updates from the solidarity march | Dismantling and clash between police and refugees in Calais|3 solidarity initiatives | The book “la couleur de l’espoir” to raise money for solidarity groups in Calais | A bus driver is arrested for taking two displaced people in his luggage
6am — The first of the volunteers awake in our campsite home. They drive the van out into the city of Calais as the sun rises. They check on the first of five distribution points. Some of the guys are waking up, moving out of their tents…
We are not criminals.
We are volunteers who care. We provide food, water, wifi, power, firewood, and clothing to refugees; the basics for survival. Yet, we are threatened with prosecution by the authorities just for providing humanitarian…