Who we are?
We are ten young passionate students from nine countries studying at the International Youth Initiative Program in Sweden who made a crazy plan. We want to go to the refugee camps in Calais, camps that we have heard about but have never seen, to face a reality which is hidden behind T.V. cameras and reporters, behind the newspaper ink, behind statements such as “they are rapists and robbers”, statements that claim the 'solution' is more control, more police, more fear.
And in the mean time we wonder: how is real life over there? Are they just people like us? And what can we do?
The ten of us are drawn to go to Calais, to learn and see, to have conversations and offer what we can, to experience how to work with the people who have been forced into the margins of our society. But we cannot do it without help. Do you want to help us to go to Calais?
What we are asking for is donations big or small. We want to raise 1000 Euros in the upcoming 14 days. It will be used to cover our costs for transport, food and lodging on a very basic level.
If you cannot help us with money, why not join us? We are there between the 21st of April and the 1st of May.
