SOS Calais (Supporting Our Sisters in Calais)

Thank you to each and everyone of you for all your help and support over the past few months. Today we transferred the remaining funds in our crowd funding page to the women's and children's centre in the Jungle run by Liz Clegg who we have spoken of many times.. . . . .

Today we took an entire car load of sanitary pads to Danielle, who is sending a container of aid to Idlib in Northern Syria.

We made another trip to the Jungle in early January. We took a car full of brand new underwear and socks for women, sleeping bags and fantastic hand knitted blankets, hats and scarves from the group Solidarity through craft which we dropped to the huge new warehouse run by L'auberge. . . . .

We are very excited to announce that the amazingly generosity of you fabulous people means that we have been able to fund a caravan which will be used by The Hummingbird Project and the Refugee Support First Aid & Care Team. Our caravan is called Jessica and she is currently. . . . .

On 17th ? 18th October 2015 we returned to Calais for our second visit to ?the jungle?. Helen, Helen, Ali and Jose spent a day at the warehouse used for collection drop-off and distribution of donations run by L?Auberge des Migrants.This is a large space but it was full of. . . . .

We just wanted to let you know that we are working closely with our contact in the camp to make sure we are providing practical help that is going to have a positive impact on the lives of women there. What is needed in camp changes almost daily and priorities. . . . .

So, we have completed our first trip to Calais and it couldn't have gone more smoothly . . . well, apart from having no idea how the headlight adaptors worked but we got that sorted in the end!We dropped off the physical donations with George at Association Salam who have. . . . .

Thank you so much to all the lovely Essex people who donated physical items. The van is full to bursting and we can't fit another single thing in!Apologies to all the people who wanted to make last minute donations that we were unable to take. We had no idea people

Collections of physical donations have started! If you would like to make a donation, we are taking:sanitary pads, clean, warm comfortable clothes or jeans, jumpers, t-shirts, coats for any age/sex, socks and underwear. Pots, pans and cooking equipment, including tin openers, wet wipes and toiletries, tents, camping equipment, sleeping bags. . . . .