Category: Activism
The beginning of the end for the Calais Jungle? (Trip 10)
Back to France we went yesterday, this my 10th trip to the Calais Jungle, the refugee camp that’s home to people from war-torn countries such as Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and dictatorships l... Read More
A sad farewell, Jungle-style (my 9th trip to the Calais Refugee Camp)
If you’re a regular reader of this blog you’ll know that, following my 8th trip to The Jungle, the refugee camp near Calais in northern France, I was debating whether my trips there would ... Read More
Celebrating an early Christmas in the Calais camp (My eighth trip to the “Jungle”)
Apologies for the tardiness of this blog post. I made my eighth trip to the refugee camp at Calais two days before Christmas, accompanied by my kids, Katie and Dan. We'd originally planned to go o... Read More
Life and love in the Calais Jungle: my seventh trip
Yesterday I made my seventh trip to the Calais refugee camp known as “The Jungle”. Last time we had a pretty horrendous time – conditions were atrocious, people were desperate, distr... Read More
Tears turned to anger … My sixth visit to the Calais Jungle
Yesterday I made my sixth visit to the refugee camp known as “The Jungle” in Calais. Usually I write about the people I've met or the stories I've heard: tales of horrors overcome,... Read More
Desperate times, desperate people: Stories from the Calais Jungle part 5
Having only been to Calais last weekend, I'd decided to opt out of yesterday's planned trip with the Swindon-Calais Solidarity group because I didn't think I could cope with doing the trip... Read More
Truth and honesty: more stories from the Calais Jungle
I opened up my writing app to start this blog post, stared at the empty screen and didn’t know where to start. After another day spent at the Jungle, the refugee camp in Calais, I find myself fe... Read More
More stories from the Calais Jungle
Last Saturday a group of us from the Swindon-Calais Solidarity group went on our third trip to “the Jungle”, the refugee camp just the other side of the English Channel in Calais. Some of ... Read More
Making friends at the Calais Refugee Camp
Yesterday Dan and I went back to the refugee camp at Calais with the Swindon Calais Solidarity group. It was a day of really mixed emotions, and a day when we began to make friends with some of the pe... Read More
Swindon Calais Solidarity on BBC Wiltshire
When the Swindon to Calais Solidarity Group went to Calais last weekend we took a BBC film crew with us, and also a reporter from our local radio station. For the last five days BBC Radio Wiltshire h... Read More
Welcome to the Calais Jungle
So on Sunday 27th September 2015 my son and I left home at 4.25am to join the Swindon to Calais Solidarity group for their first trip to the Calais Jungle – the refugee camp at Calais. Althoug... Read More