Wales Care4Calais volunteering weekend

This was the 2nd visit by Welsh NEU members to the Care4Calais warehouse to bring essential items and work in the warehouse and with refugees for the weekend. Thanks to a donation from Wales council we were able to hire a van and take over much needed staples that are difficult to get in Calais. Monetary donations from Pembrokeshire, Denbighshire and Vale of Glamorgan meant that we could fill the van and also have money to go shopping while there and buy the most essential items when we were in Calais.

What a privilege it was not just to give out around 175 sleeping bags to refugees from Sudan, Afghanistan, Gambia and other countries but to show our solidarity by spending hours talking to them, hearing their stories, playing Jenga, chess and connect 4 and watching them thoroughly enjoy having a football to play with. It definitely reminded us all how lucky we are to live in the Uk instead of living in a field for 4 years as some of the young men we talked to had been. #RefugeesWelcome