***UPDATE***

The Calais Jungle has now been dismantled, but Safe Passage UK continues its work trying to help unaccompanied children in Northern France, Greece and Italy to safety in the UK. They say: 

'Some of those children have a legal right to travel safely to the UK, either because they have close family here who can look after them, or because of the Dubs amendment to the Immigration Bill, which states that some unaccompanied children in Europe who are extremely vulnerable will be offered asylum in the UK. We want to help them access those rights.'

We still have nearly two weeks left until our fun run - help us to hit our £2000 target before then!

***EARLIER DESCRIPTION***

Safe Passage UK is working to to help save unaccompanied refugee children in the Calais Jungle. They have identified 387 lone children in the camp who have a legal right to come to the UK, including 187 who have close family here. So far, Safe Passage has been able to bring over around 50 of them, but the camp is set to be closed soon, and in the last eviction more than 100 children went ‘missing’. 

It costs around £2000 to cover the cost of relocating one of these young people to the UK. We would like to try and help make sure that one more child makes it here before winter.

Together we will be running a 10k race (at varying paces!) in London in November. We all have our own goals for the race, but the competition will be to see who can raise the most as well as who can run the fastest! Please give whatever you can, it would be amazing to know that together we could help to remove a vulnerable young person from a chaotic and dangerous situation, and perhaps even reunite them with their family.

The Safe Passage UK emergency fund was set up by Citizens UK, an organisation which brings together civil society groups to work together for the common good. We heard about the Emergency Fund campaign through this article in The Observer:

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/11/refugees-calais-children-kindertransport-britain-migrants