Dear all,

Thanks for your support.

The initial project was meant to run from the 10th August to 16th September.
The goal was to buy just 1 humanitarian tent.

Looking at the enthusiasm around this campaign, the end date has been moved, to start with, to the 1st October and then to December.

After a first order in late October of 12 tents, completed by some material later on, we managed, in a bit more than a month, to gather funds for potentially 22 more tents. From 5 persons initially to 170+ persons.

We gathered a total of 44,610.00 € when our initial target, in the early days, was 1350€.

This is 3304%, 33 times more than I ever expected. I've been helped along the way. Often morally, sometimes practically. Though the fact is a customer service employee isn't trained or educated to manage this kind of project. There were mistakes. There were a lot of learning. Most people have been supportive and sometimes tolerant, whenever challenging sometimes. A handful has been working pro-actively against this project. Which is fine.½½

Now, the money will be sent to Salam, once gathered from the different accounts (eWallet, PayPal...) and the order with CanvasCamp will be processed.

The main issue will be the timing. While the tents are already, obviously, needed now, the supplier will need time to produce them again as we bought their remaining stock in October. With hopefully a delivery time in late January - early February, they will still be needed, that's not the wonder.

However I can't change the project. I started this project so humans could get humanitarian material. The waiting is extremely frustrating, but painfully needed so we achieve our goal.

Best Regards,

Clément


One of the tent already raised in Calais Jungle:

PS:

Last minute edit: I just saw now a message asking me for a substantial refund of 3450€. Fine. Though, if you want a refund please ask for it now, on this thread, so I'm sure to not miss it. I'm barely able to look at my inbox. This obviously changes the whole calculation.