Mobile Refugee Support

On this listen to our co-founder Jed speak on .calais on the theme of courage.

We honour the courage shown by refugees, asylum seekers and refugees. But courage is a necessity born from fear. Seeking safety should never be frightening, not for anyone.

“I think that courage can have a lot of different meanings when it comes to the context of working in this field.

There are many different instances of courage being a necessity for people who are displaced, and those can range from having the courage to search for a better life for oneself, to having the courage to keep hope alive when odds seems not to favor you, having the courage to settle into a new life in a new country with no guarantees of safety or asylum.

I think unfortunately with today’s all too common xenophobic rhetoric, even the simple act of existing as a person who is a refugee, asylum seeker, or displaced in itself requires a lot of courage.

We meet people every single day who’ve put their own lives at risk for the sake of a better life, only for politics and media to demonize them for seeking safety.

And yet despite that, people are still able to maintain hope and positivity, which is incredibly courageous.

I think oftentimes people find themselves with no choice but to be courageous, as the journey they’re making is out of complete necessity, and that’s a failure of our systems as a whole.

Oxford Languages defines courage as the ability to do something that is frightening.

Seeking safety and sanctuary in another country should not be a frightening experience.

Integrating into any society should not be frightening.

The asylum system, news headlines, and political perspectives should not be frightening to the most vulnerable of our collective societies.

The fact that courage is necessary means that all of these things are frightening, and I think that’s a very sad thing indeed.”

Phone charging is how it all started for us.

Having a charged mobile phone is a lifeline for displaced people.

We support communication and information needs by bringing phone charging to camp any day it is needed and by charging power banks overnight back at the warehouse.

In makeshift camps where there is no access to electricity at all, charge is one of those simple services we have always provided and will continue to provide for as long as it is necessary.

We truly understood the importance and meaning of washing people’s clothes with the rate at which the demand for our laundry service has increased.

Laundry has become one of our most in demand services.

To help with making a difference for someone by washing their clothes, please consider a donation.

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Having a blanket and a sleeping bags is a basic vital necessity for people forced to sleep outside.
We distribute these items every single day, prioritising new arrivals and re-equipping after evictions.

But everyday we run out and we have to turn people away.

Please consider a donation to allow us to have more to give.
With €15 we can buy a winter sleeping bag

Our links to donate are in our bio.

We have to be honest.
Amidst the moral injury of the world and the collective grief roaring inside us all, knowing what to say to raise funds this Christmas hasn’t been easy.

We can start the long list of all that is revolting and wrong with the way people continue to be treated on this border.

Walls have been built.
Literally and figuratively.
More than ever before hateful and dehumanising language is being paroted by politics and the media alike.
British far-right groups have come to the camp to intimidate and harass people in exile.
Attacks on human rights and downright lies are rife.

Being part of a system that contradicts everything we believe to be right.
Witnessing harm and feeling powerless to stop it.
It can feel hopeless.

So what can we do?
We keep showing up. Louder, more determined and steadfast.
To drown out the racist rethoric and othering.
When communities are being targeted and scapegoated we must respond with solidarity and hope. With the conviction that we can make a difference for one person at a time.

We have one wish for Christmas
To help more
To support every man, woman and child we meet with the basic vital items and support they need to make their time in exile more bearable.
It’s the bare minimum.

You can be part of that.

With your donation we can give one more sleeping bag, tent, pair of shoes or winter jacket.

We can expand our services and take in more laundry, distribute more food packs, say yes more often than we have to say no.

Donate what you can to make a real difference for one person.

As humans looking out for humans
Standing with and for each other
In kinship.
We won’t back down.

Links to donate through paypal or justgiving are in our bio.

With €15 we can buy a new pair of winter boots
Shoes are one of the items most in demand and we never have enough
It’s a lot of saying no
And a lot of hating that we have any say at all in who needs shoes the most.
Your donation could be the difference between someone facing the elements in flip flops or in a sturdy new pair of winter boots.

Donation links are in bio as well as linked on stories.
Thank you