Another long day, sun shone thank goodness & as we left the camp there was the most fantastic & enormous full moon rising, we could see the coastline of England from the motorway on the drive back to our lodgings. We spent the day laboriously moving the production line to a large empty area & did many distribution runs between the warehouse & the camp. A lot of people arrived last night many with no shoes, so shoes + cooking pots, bowls & spoons were top of the list. We bought in van after van load of blankets which we bagged up intending to walk around & distribute them but we never got further than 50 ft from the van before the bags were empty. The disorganization of the distribution is intense. Thankfully the Emmaus came into "The Jungle" today & did fantastic work with lines of trestle tables out full of boxes of clothes & shoes but we realised how awful the situation here is when we gave away our lunch to guys that hadn't eaten for 24 hours & didn't know where to find food, sadly other than a few tins of soup neither did we, this may sound unfair to the people who are trying their best to manage a situation of chaos but this happened & it is not necessary, in their defence though i will say that the influx is vast & growing every day, the logistics are a nightmare.
Laura
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