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SpanishOne of our Director’s Philip has been volunteering for the past month with the charity Care4Calais – between the middle of May to middle of June he organised 14 volunteers from Colchester to travel to Calais to volunteer. The volunteers participated in delivering much needed supplies of food,clothes and sleeping bags to refugees in Paris, […]
Category Archives: Calais
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Apr
Apr
Refugee Action – Colchester volunteers are heading to Calais again in May and June. We hope to have 10 volunteers working a total of 50 man days helping the charity Care4Calais sort and distribute aid. There are over 700 people dependent on charitable organisations such as Care4Calais and they in turn rely on volunteers turning […]
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Feb
Feb
Refugee Action – Colchester and Brightlingsea Refugee Support Network are very pleased to announce that from this week we will be accepting clothing donations for the refugees in Calais. A number of our volunteers have recently returned from Calais and can confirm how desperate the situation is there, and we have found a transport company […]
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Feb
Feb
What is it like to be a Volunteer in Calais? Personally, I think it’s amazing, fulfilling, rewarding, draining, frustrating and heartbreaking. These are just a few words to describe the experience, although there are many more! I have always felt it to be a predominately positive experience, I have always felt fulfilled and empowered, its […]
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Dec
Dec
Another trip to Calais, this time in freezing conditions – snow greeted us on our arrival at the warehouse. It is difficult to write about anything that people don’t already know. It was cold, the refugees have little or no shelter, donations are always needed, volunteers try and help. I have therefore decided to describe […]
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Nov
Nov
September Philip and I travelled to Calais for one week’s volunteering with Care4Calais. Before we went we spent a couple of days sorting and repacking donations that had been collected locally. This was my first trip to Calais but Philip’s sixth so I felt confident that one of us at least would know what they […]
Two volunteers from Colchester will be travelling to Calais in mid September to volunteer with Care4Calais, an organisation we have worked with for almost two years. The situation is still desperate for over a thousand refugees in the region and Care4Calais also regularly support refugees in Belgium and Paris. We will be taking a car […]
The situation in Calais remains very difficult with the French police destroying tents when they find them, leaving hundreds of refugees including families with children with very limited shelter. The Care4Calais group continue to provide clothing, blankets, hygiene kits and food (in conjunction with Refugee Community Kitchen). There are no longer any official or unofficial […]
Refugee Action-Colchester in partnership with the University will be making their next trip the the Jungle with 15 students. Along with the students will be two local hairdressers from Wivenhoe and Colchester, who will be offering free haircuts to women and children in the Womens area. We wish them a safe journey and look forward […]
In the early hours of Tuesday 12th a group of 8 of us set out on a trip to the Calais jungle to volunteer with one of the groups who work in the camp. Some of the group had already been to Calais before, some of us knew each other and some didn’t. We all […]