Plymouth Calais Refugee Aid

Fundraising campaign by Hayley Kemp
  • £4,748.00
    raised of £4,000.00 goal goal
118% Funded
138 Donors
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Humanitarian Aid to Calais Refugees

We will to be delivering clothing, food, bedding and hygiene items to the people currently living in desperate conditions in Calais. I'll be travelling by car joining the Soin Sans Frontieres convoy where we will to take items directly into the refugee camp where I can personally give them to be distributed and used immediately.

My first trip will be on 29th August. I will return again with a van at the end of September or beginning of October. Money raised will help fund transport and the purchase of supplies, in particular sleeping bags, toiletries, hygiene and first aid kits. Once the van is unloaded we can also use the money to fill up from local supermarkets with extra food.The men, women and children in the camp have very little and are living in appalling conditions which daily risk their health and lives.

The huge recent media coverage has really brought to attention the urgency of the help needed for the 3000 people currently living in and around the area known as 'The Jungle' who are in desperate need of basic essentials such as food, shelter and medical care. These people have already risked their lives to flee war, persecution, poverty, abuse and other horrors and now risk dying trying to make the journey to England (as several have recently died).

Any amount of cash will help and be gratefully received but it would also be great to receive donations of items from the list above which I can take in the van. I will squeeze in whatever I can! I will also be encouraging others to collect and join the convoy from Plymouth at end of September.

Thank you!

Organizer

  • Hayley Kemp
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Donors

  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Oct 04, 2016
£20.00
  • Alastair Tinto
  • Donated on Oct 02, 2016
  • We applaud the work you are doing in Calais. Alastair & Jennie

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May 23

Iraq Kurdistan

Update posted by Hayley Kemp at 12:16 pm

As some of you know I have very recently returned from Northern Iraq. Whilst there I visited and distributed aid to refugees in the camps, from Salahuddin province. Human Rights Watch says: "Militia abuses are wreaking havoc among some of Iraq’s most vulnerable people and exacerbating sectarian hostilities." If you

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Dec 10

Latest Calais Trip Report December 2015

Update posted by Hayley Kemp at 12:08 pm

On our latest trip we set off with a group of 11 people, from Plymouth & Portsmouth. This is the third trip I've done that was a Plymouth/Portsmouth Calais trip, we are thinking we should be twinned! The group included people with building & carpentry skills as well as a. . . . .

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Nov 05

Next Trip Planned!

Update posted by Hayley Kemp at 04:42 pm

Just to keep you updated, I am planning another trip to Calais from Friday December 4th. There will be a group of 11 of us going together from both Plymouth and Portsmouth (I?m coordinating Plymouth and my previous travelling companion Fran coordinating Portsmouth). There will be a nurse coming along. . . . .

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Oct 09

Calais Update October 2015

Update posted by Hayley Kemp at 09:33 am

We have returned from our latest trip to Calais. It got off to a bad start, tunnel closed because migrants 'stormed' the tunnel (hurrah!), punctured tyre on Eurostar. At least this gave us the chance to speak to a French Moroccan Eurostar team manager, sympathetic to people in the camp,. . . . .

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Oct 09

Calais Update October 2015

Update posted by Hayley Kemp at 09:33 am

We have returned from our latest trip to Calais. It got off to a bad start, tunnel closed because migrants 'stormed' the tunnel (hurrah!), punctured tyre on Eurostar. At least this gave us the chance to speak to a French Moroccan Eurostar team manager, sympathetic to people in the camp,. . . . .

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Sep 20

Upcoming trips

Update posted by Hayley Kemp at 12:32 pm

Hi, Once again just to thank all of you, including those donating offline and the wonderful benefit gig guys at The Underground that raised over �400! Fran and I are back in Calais at the beginning of October taking sleeping bags, blankets, tents and some tools and tarpaulin. We will. . . . .

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Sep 03

Return from first trip

Update posted by Hayley Kemp at 07:48 am

It took me ages to write these few paragraphs as words can't describe really. Frances Vigay and I are obviously now back in the UK. More conscious than ever of those we have left behind in the camp. We gave out all the donations. It became apparent that trainers (and. . . . .

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Aug 11

Wow! And Thanks.

Update posted by Hayley Kemp at 05:49 pm

Hi All, Well the support is overwhelming and truly heartening. Thank you so much to all who have supported, donated, shared. We are all booked ready for the first trip and not only are we taking a van full from Plymouth on the second trip but already organising a third. . . . .

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Donors & Comments

138 donors
  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Oct 04, 2016
£20.00
  • Alastair Tinto
  • Donated on Oct 02, 2016
  • We applaud the work you are doing in Calais. Alastair & Jennie

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  • Nick Jackson
  • Donated on Sep 30, 2016
  • Keep going Hayley with this valiant work.

£30.00
  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Sep 30, 2016
  • Amazing work Hayley and so much raised- WOW

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  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Sep 27, 2016
£25.00
  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Sep 23, 2016
  • You are such an inspiration Hayley. Thank you for being such a wonderful woman who really knows how to make a difference to so many people's lives

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  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Sep 23, 2016
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  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Apr 14, 2016
  • Hi Hayley, keep going as what you are doing is great and I have huge admiration. Nick

£20.00
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£4,748.00
raised of £4,000.00 goal
118% Funded
138 Donors