This camp was set up in April 2015, after the previous "Jungle camp" was demolished.

 

It has a day centre that provides shower facilities and offers migrants one meal a day.

However, aid workers say they are being overwhelmed by the numbers of people coming, mainly from east Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan, and conditions in the rest of the site are desperate. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zimako Jones from Nigeria arrives "home" after playing football. He has been in the camp for four months and has

 

 

                                                    begun the process to stay in France ... but he has no idea how long it will take.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A refugee from Eritrea cooks a meal. Those who stay in the camp more than a few days are near the bottom of the migration food chain. People trying to get to the UK who have more money, and better contacts, often avoid the port altogether, paying between £1,000 and £4,000 to gangs to be put on to lorries bound for the UK hundreds of miles before they reach Calais.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUR ACTION IN CALAIS, FRANCE

 

 

• AFRDP helps refugees with the administrative process to obtain permission to live in France or to cross the border to the UK.

• AFRDP is looking for more French, Bristish & Swedish families willing to welcome a refugee (or a family of refugees) into their home for a little while.

• AFRDP helps provide shelter (tents), distribute water boxes, healthy food, basic cooking kits, hygiene kits, basic medicine as well as vaccinations for the kids, milk for infants & clothes.