Everyone I met in Laguepie is suffering with "an English cold" Malc was left at home suffering.
I am asked whilst out an about the same questions about Calais. This is one I asked myself to Laura and Sid last time they went.
Why is there so much rubbish everywhere?
The answer
The camp is at least two miles out of the way of any civilisation,it is an old toxic rubbish site. The French at that point (and I do not know till the group return if it has changed) provided no rubbish bins, the nearest being a two mile walk. No bags for rubbish, and rubbish only gets cleared when volunteers with cars are there to help carry it away, then everyone is happy to help. As you see from the pictures the young men are building their own constructions under the tutelage of Sid, Laura and Caroline. No deliveries are dumped in the camps anymore, all our donations must go to the storage warehouses, where volunteers then hand out what is needed as people arrive. Any bedding in the pictures is soiled and muddy by the rain which floods the tents and is then unusable again as there are no washing machines. The people arriving have been travelling for days, weeks and months on foot most with serious foot and leg damage, trauma mental and physical, some having lost family along the way, or in their country of origin. There are now over 6,000 people, imagine the detritus of their lives and imagine the smell.
It certainly answered my query.
Another person asked this morning.
Why would Mimi who is a farmers wife, has a busy life and family here go and peel 300 plus potatoes in Calais?
Now Mimi who has also taken her daughter Mica with her, will have to answer that one for us on her return.
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