I’m working on my piece about our experience volunteering in the warehouse and the camp in Calais a few weeks ago. In the meantime, the Calais Kitchens women in this video were the ones who inspired us to come, and whom we met when there. I deeply respect and trust them. They are asking for donations of (tinned) chickpeas, tomatoes and fish, as well as cooking oil and ONIONS! Please no pasta.
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This came up automatically on Youtube. It’s beautiful and absolutely heartbreaking.
These videos offer an inspiring introduction to the solidarity work around food in “the Jungle” camp in Calais, and those cooking, distributing and making it possible there for people to do this themselves as well. The refugees are from many places in the world, and it’s clear that most are fleeing terrible violence and have had quite a rough journey to get to where they now are.
Here’s a video showing how volunteers are working with the diversity and specificity of the people in the camp; you can feel the urgency:
This one shows the development of Kitchen in Calais:
This one what your group might want to contribute in terms of food donations:
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Lots of people seem to wind up on my blog, say the WordPress stats, looking for information about what Syrian refugees eat. I have no personal knowledge about this, though I did a while back reblog some information that is now probably pretty obsolete pertaining to refugees in Lebanon. That’s why you might end up here on my site.
I assume that people who ask these questions of internet search engines (maybe Siri can somehow learn as well) inquire from a place of compassion and concern, and perhaps the wish to contribute, donate, or volunteer. Hence this post.
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Amazing loving solidarity work, feeding people in the refugee encampments in the cold, wet muddiness on the outskirts of Calais. Reblogging from ThatCan’tBeRightBlog. Please share in your networks.
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