Lighting The Way

Fundraising campaign by Charlotte Wales
  • £2,460.00
    raised of £8,000.00 goal goal
30% Funded
74 Donors
Raised offline: £577.69
Total: £3,037.69

No more donations are being accepted at this time. Please contact the campaign owner if you would like to discuss further funding opportunities

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Refugees living in the camps around Calais have only makeshift shelters, limited water and no heating or lighting. Working with LuminAID in the US, all funds from this campaign will go to buy and ship their solar powered, water proof, inflatable lanterns designed specifically for crisis relief and emergency situations just like this one.

The camps are legally not allowed to build any kind of permanent structure which has left thousands of people living without sanitation or power. We would like to bring a little hope into their lives by distributing a solar powered lantern to each refugee. This will not only give them light in their tents and limit the terrible danger of naked flames in a camp built largely of wood and canvas, where people live in very close quarters, but also provide more safety and security for moving around a hastily built camp after dusk.

LuminAID has agreed to help our relief efforts so we have created this initiative with the goal of providing at least 1,000 sustainable and environmentally responsible PackLite 16 lights to those in need. We must act quickly, winter is coming and with it the days grow shorter which dramatically increases the risk of fire in a camp not built to cope with the thousands of people now living there.

Every donation helps us to ensure we provide one more of these safe, sustainable and environmentally responsible PackLite 16 lanterns to a refugee. Each lantern we can send is one more tent that will not burn down, one more person who will feel safer at night, one more child who won't be afraid of the dark.

These lights come with a one year warranty and over 15,000 lifetime hours of light.

I am coordinating with L'Auberge des Migrants to ensure that once we have the funds, all storage is pre organised and distribution can be managed on a fair and efficient basis to get to those in the farthest reaches of the camps and those who are too vulnerable, weak or scared to leave their shelters. Please support this with any amount you can spare, it will make such a huge difference to their lives.

Thank you for your support.

Organizer

  • Charlotte Wales
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  • Campaign Owner

Donors

£100.00
  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Mar 04, 2016
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  • xcsc csc
  • Donated on Jan 06, 2016
£10.00
Nov 02

Success and Press!

Update posted by Charlotte Wales at 10:15 am

It's been a very busy week and I'm happy to say we've made great progress. A new total of almost �1,700 has been reached meaning we can now bring just over 200 lights to the camp! We've also made it into the local press with the help of a reporter. . . . .

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Donors & Comments

74 donors
£100.00
  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Mar 04, 2016
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  • xcsc csc
  • Donated on Jan 06, 2016
£10.00
  • sxs sds
  • Donated on Jan 06, 2016
£10.00
  • Gareth Sheldon
  • Donated on Dec 25, 2015
  • I'm Doing my Christmas donations and had to do this one, obviously!

£50.00
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  • Caroline Wyard
  • Donated on Dec 10, 2015
  • on my own mission to spread some light & love to Greece, we have some funds left over from a very kind & generous donor - happy to share that light & love with Calais! well done! x

£100.00
  • Joanna Ives
  • Donated on Dec 04, 2015
£10.00
  • Renaud Delmaire
  • Donated on Dec 04, 2015
£30.00
  • Renaud Delmaire
  • Donated on Dec 04, 2015
£30.00
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Followers

23 followers
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£2,460.00
raised of £8,000.00 goal
30% Funded
74 Donors
Raised offline: £577.69
Total: £3,037.69

No more donations are being accepted at this time. Please contact the campaign owner if you would like to discuss further funding opportunities