HELP US RAISE FUNDS TO COOK WITH VULNERABLE HOMELESS PEOPLE IN CALAIS THIS WINTER!
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This Winter in Calais, around 200 migrants including children and lone teens are living in disused buildings and tents, with no heating, poor or no access to food, and regular violence and persecution from police. They are the “unpeople” of France.
Due to the UK’s prejudiced legal system, it is almost impossible for migrants to enter the UK legally, and they risk their lives trying to get in by any other means possible.
A voluntary group called Calais Migrant Solidarity has been working with migrants there for two years to raise political awareness of their situation, and the repressive border system that exists today.
A group of volunteers from Cambridge are raising funds to take a kitchen to Calais to cook with the migrants and long-term volunteers there over New Year. We welcome your interest and support!
YOU CAN HELP US! HOW?
Help us raise money! – we have no funding other than personal donations to cover the costs of buying food and transporting kitchen kit. The people who are going are contributing hundreds of pounds, and we could do with more! If you fancy putting your hand in your pocket; throwing a lavish fundraiser, sending this appeal round to your social networks this Christmas, or giving one of our sponsor forms to your minted family and friends then that’d be great!
How can money get to us?
Cheques can be made payable to Cambridge Action Network using the above
details, and paid into the Coop Bank or sent to:
Cambridge Action Network c/o Arjuna
12 Mill Road, Cambridge CB1 2AD
We’ve been asked to take blankets, sleeping bags and tents – if you’ve got some spare, let us know!
We are also sourcing bulk donations of food. We can take a limited amount of food to Calais with us, and then will source more wholesalers when in France. If you can help provide the initial batch, let us know!
You could also offer to help us with lifts from Cambridge to Dover or back, going around the 28th of December coming back 4th January. We can hitch hike across the ferry for free.
…or just get in touch – cambridge@lists.riseup.net – to discuss other ways of supporting us. There will be a lot of work to do before we go.