A young lady approached me as I was getting out of my van. We didn't have a shared language so we used our highly developed charades skills to communicate instead. I knew they'd come in handy one day! She needed blankets for her tent to keep the draughts out but I didn't have any. Slowly ambling in our direction was a young man, maybe 20 years of age. He seemed amused by our animated game of "bloody hell but it's cold in the Jungle! Why don't you have anything useful in that

I met a young Afghani lad of 16 today who spent two hours translating for an Iranian couple with a 3 month old baby. He doesn't speak their language, but he tried really hard to understand them and to make himself understood. Then he translated into English for Belgian journalists. They are not his family. He isn't sure where his family are. They needed his help to translate so he gave it. He stood in the cold for an hour translating for a journalist who wanted to interview t

Work is beginning on the bus and we need your help. Can you donate some materials to get us going? We have had an amazing outpouring of support for this project so far, and we are now well on our way to getting the bus out to Calais to join the teachers already out there on the ground. Please take a look at our wish list and see if there's some small part you can play in getting our bus ready to provide learning opportunities and a safe space for every single refugee who want

Last weekend Sonya and Ben from JCRAG (Jersey Calais Refugee Aid Group) braved the rain to visit us at the bus conversion site and deliver a cheque for £1500 to purchase salt water batteries for our sustainable energy system. We are so grateful to the lovely people of Jersey for supporting us in this way! It means we can move to the next stage of bus conversion and have a clean energy source to power laptops and tablets on the go. We are looking forward to working more closel