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***Important Note***: Some people have pointed out that the total raised figure at the top of the page makes it look as if we have a lot of money 'in the bank'. Unfortnately this isn't the case, the figure represenst the total amount of money that we have been able to raise since this page was started about seven months ago. For each trip we extract whatever we have raised since the previous trip and spend that on aid and things like fuel costs for running the minibuses so we are constantly in need of further donations to keep our trips viable.
We are an enthusiastic group of volunteers working from Oxfordshire. We run aid trips every 2 months, working with Care4Calais, the Refugee Community Kitchen and Utopia56. It is extremely important that we continue to provide aid and volunteers to the charities caring for the migrants and refugees who continue to make their way to Northern France in an attempt to get to the UK. Although there are no official camps there anymore, there are men, women and children sleeping rough, at risk from traffikers and the French CRS, who constantly harass, pepper spray and teargas these vulnerable human beings, fleeing poverty, famine and war. We go to bring back the truth of what we witness.
Since the bulldozing of the 'Jungle' by the French authorities in December 2016 the situation has been growing steadily worse and after a large section of the camp at Dunkirk burned to the ground it can only justifiably be described as desperate.
On our trips to Calais and Dunkirk we've met children growing up in fields by the side of motorways, having their nappies changed on bare concrete and living in bushes. We've distributed clothes, food and sleeping bags to young boys who are beaten up night after night by the riot police. We've seen the French police pepper spray refugees and their belongings to make them unusable, simply for being there.
The money raised will be used to buy much-needed supplies, food, nappies, sanitary products etc for our ongoing trips. Our next trip is scheduled for the beginning of
September 2018. We're aiming to take 2 x 17 seater minibuses with 35 volunteers and aid again.
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