Revealed: Life Inside Calais's Makeshift Camps
- 4 months ago
1,800 migrants are living in makeshift camps in northern France, in both Dunkirk and Calais, waiting to try to reach the UK after months – or even years – of travelling.
Some have developed trench foot, with cases of scabies also rife, according to a first aid team working in the area.
As Rishi Sunak’s Safety of Rwanda bill passed its final Commons test i's Molly Blackall went inside the freezing camps to give a rare glance at life for it's inhabitants including a group of Sudanese teenagers who fled the civil war in their homeland.
The teenagers want to reach the UK but have run out of money, so cannot pay people smugglers to get across the Channel in a small boat. Instead, they have tried to jump in the back of lorries headed for Britain but were caught due to heightened surveillance.
“Some of us have been here for four months,” the Sudanese teenagers tell i. “We want to get to the UK. It’s my dream,” one says.
Reported by Molly Blackall
Filmed and produced by Robbie Hawken
Music by Aleksey Chistilin from Pixabay
Listen to more of their music here: https://pixabay.com/users/lexin_music-28841948/
Some have developed trench foot, with cases of scabies also rife, according to a first aid team working in the area.
As Rishi Sunak’s Safety of Rwanda bill passed its final Commons test i's Molly Blackall went inside the freezing camps to give a rare glance at life for it's inhabitants including a group of Sudanese teenagers who fled the civil war in their homeland.
The teenagers want to reach the UK but have run out of money, so cannot pay people smugglers to get across the Channel in a small boat. Instead, they have tried to jump in the back of lorries headed for Britain but were caught due to heightened surveillance.
“Some of us have been here for four months,” the Sudanese teenagers tell i. “We want to get to the UK. It’s my dream,” one says.
Reported by Molly Blackall
Filmed and produced by Robbie Hawken
Music by Aleksey Chistilin from Pixabay
Listen to more of their music here: https://pixabay.com/users/lexin_music-28841948/