I was in the makeshift refugee camp near Dunkirk on Saturday morning watching Angus, Mark, San and Jake dig a new hole-in-the-ground toilet. I’d excused myself from the physical labour after twisting my ankle in the morning. And I was musing that no one watching would...
Amber, Mark, Angus, Ana & San – forRefugees, Herts for Refugees and Refugee Info Bus in the rare Calais sunshine The Calais warehouse was buzzing with volunteers and vans when we arrived to this now familiar hub. I was last here in November but the...
And just like that two extraordinary weeks in the Balkan Route have passed. We’ve covered 1300kms across 5 locations in 2 countries in a region that saw 60,000 refugees transit through last year. The biggest lesson we’ve learned is how devastatingly forgotten the...
Volunteering with our local partners is such an important part of who we are at forRefugees. For example, when we visited Collective Aid’s ‘The Wash Centre’ in Belgrade, a bit tired on Friday afternoon, I saw a snapshot that my brain instantly judged –...
I learned so much from reading this book. Young Gulwali’s journey from rural Afghanistan, through Iran and Turkey (and back again), and on through Europe… Athens, Patras, Italy, Ventimiglia, Paris, Calais… To eventually arrive in the UK, still aged only...
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