28 January 2016, The Tablet

Calais refugee camp: life in the Jungle for disparate migrants


 
Last week a delegation of British and French parliamentarians paid a visit, organised by Caritas Social Action Network and its French counterpart, Secours Catholique, to the squalid camp endured by 5,000 migrants near Calais. This is what they saw IT is a bleak place, the “Jungle” camp near Calais, home to hundreds upon hundreds of refugees, fleeing deadly conflict in the Middle East. We arrived there after driving out of Calais past the high perimeter fences which surround the port, recently installed and paid for by the UK, and then walked under a highway and into the camp. Our group of UK parliamentarians, on a trip organised by Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN) and its French counterpart, Secours Catholique, had travelled from St Pancras International Station, with its
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