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France: The Jungle, Calais 21 images Created 1 Jan 2016

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  • "I'm John Sloane and I'm from Birmingham. I'm here because it's a humanitarian crisis, I've been here just over three months. There's a big response from ordinary people in the UK, Germany, Holland and Ireland. I help run this warehouse, everything that comes in we sort it, into sizes, male and female, we check quality too, and we put packages together for new arrivals at the camp, we get it all ready for distribution. A lot of people, once they've walked across Europe, they've lost a lot of weight, and so small sizes of trousers, from 26 to 32, are always in demand. And we always need walking boots and waterproof clothing."  John works with the volunteer network Care4Calais.
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  • Roxanne talks to a group of volunteers, from the back of a rented van that has brought a shipment of donations from the UK. She explains how to effectively carry out a distribution in the camp. The moment of distribution can be chaotic and dangerous if not carefully managed.
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  • A camp of refugees and migrants in Calais - known as The Jungle - houses some 7000 people in temporary accommodation. There is no official support for the camp, but people arriving there are supported by networks of volunteers with donated food, clothing and medical aid.
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  • A group of volunteers from across Europe sorting donations of clothing for people at the camp in Calais known as The Jungle. The Jungle houses some 7000 people in temporary accommodation, mainly tents. There is no official support for the camp, but people arriving there are supported by networks of volunteers with donated food, clothing and medical aid.
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  • During a distribution of food in The Jungle, a queue of people wait for a chance to get a package of food being distributed by Care4Calais volunteers. The food was a donation from a church in the UK.
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  • During a distribution of food in The Jungle, a queue of people wait for a chance to get a package of food being distributed by Care4Calais volunteers. The food was a donation from a church in the UK.
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  • During a distribution of food in The Jungle, a queue of people wait for a chance to get a package of food being distributed by Care4Calais volunteers. The food was a donation from a church in the UK.
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  • Ian Maxwell delivers food parcels to refugees in The Jungle camp in Calais. The food was provided by donations from a church in the UK.
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  • As a food distribution finishes many refugees go back to their tents empty-handed in the cold.
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  • One of many small paths surrounded by tents. Between six and seven thousand people are currently in the camp.
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  • Two refugees from Syria prepare an evening meal on small fire.
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  • "My name is Azad. I am from north of Aleppo in Syria. There is fighting in my area, people are shot with rifles, with missiles, with rockets. Jabhat Al Nusrah [the Al-Nusrah Front] is there. I saw on the news that there is fierce fighting in my area today, we don't know when it will stop. If ISIS catch me they will immediately behead me, first of all because I am Yazidi, and because I am Kurdish. My brothers and sister have left Syria already, only my mother is left there, my father is dead. We have to delete our memories, and the dead cannot come back to life, but we still have hope of a new beginning, a different future, the end of the war in Syria. That's all we want for the new year.
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  • An area of The Jungle camp in Calais that is predominantly inhabited by Syrians.
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  • A young syrian boy in The Jungle.
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  • Many of the refugees arriving in The Jungle are traumatised by the experience of war in their own countries, and many have also suffered violence along their way to get to a safe place. Few are willing to have a photograph taken, for fear of being tracked or it affecting an asylum application. This woman from Syria told me "I have been here for more than three months, my husband was a painter and decorator, he was killed, there is a lot of bombing. I am from Daraa, it's a disaster, we left to save our lives, I brought my children to safety, away from Assad and away from the Free Syria Army. My children are three and five years old. We don't know what to do now, we have relatives in the UK, we hope to be with them. We have no rights, do we?"
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  • A camp of refugees and migrants in Calais - known as The Jungle - houses some 7000 people in temporary accommodation. There is no official support for the camp, but people arriving there are supported by networks of volunteers with donated food, clothing and medical aid.
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  • Refugees make a timber frame for a shelter in The Jungle camp in Calais.
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  • A camp of refugees and migrants in Calais - known as The Jungle - houses some 7000 people in temporary accommodation. There is no official support for the camp, but people arriving there are supported by networks of volunteers with donated food, clothing and medical aid.
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  • A church has been built in The Jungle from tarpaulin on a timber frame. Principally it is a church for the Ethiopian Orthodox community on the camp. Many Ethiopians are fleeing persecution, particularly the Oromo people who talk of a genocide against their people.
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  • A camp of refugees and migrants in Calais - known as The Jungle - houses some 7000 people in temporary accommodation. There is no official support for the camp, but people arriving there are supported by networks of volunteers with donated food, clothing and medical aid.
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  • Ali and Mouna. Ali: "We are here with my father-in-law. We're here because of the shelling, the missiles, ISIS, the government, even foreign planes bombing us. The war in general, that's why we left. It was difficult to get out of Syria, then it took us a month to get here, it was a dangerous journey. We've been here for 20 days. My mother and other relatives are in England, I wish we could join them there, all I want is to work."
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