Just to keep you updated, I am planning another trip to Calais from Friday December 4^th. 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 with us as well as a builder from Tavistock. We will be staying to do voluntary work, some will be at the warehouse, the nurse helping out with the medics there and I have organised for the Plymouth/Tavi team to be doing the shelter building, which some of you saw the photos of last time. I like working in ?housing?! We will be taking with us blankets, sleeping bags, wood and tools, as well as some wonderful wind up torches that I purchased with the donation from the football tournament held by Balls To Borders.

I will of course be doing an update as usual on my return. We will be working with L?auberge des Migrants mentioned in the following link. If you read only one thing about the Calais Camp please read this. This is an excellent report of what the camp is really like. Whilst reading it please bear in mind that this camp is closer to the UK than Exeter is to Plymouth:

'One minute, you are driving through placid suburbia; the next minute, you are deposited at the entrance to a sprawling shantytown, where conditions appear worse than in the slums of Mumbai, a camp that is now home to more than 6,000 people, many of them vulnerable and unwell.'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/03/refug...