Sitting down to write this after my first six weeks in Camp in Calais, I can’t help but think that it hasn’t exactly been what I’d call a normal half term. The time has expanded so that it feels as if I’ve never lived or worked anywhere else but also feels like it has passed in the blink of an eye. Where do I even start? Thinking about this, what keeps coming to mind is the connections that have been made over the past 7 weeks and the moments of humanity I have witnessed and

The Calais ‘Jungle’ is being demolished, its inhabitants moved on. But they don’t cease to exist. They still need education. They still need love, support, care, encouragement and solidarity. Destroying the ‘Jungle’ doesn’t make refugees go away, it just relocates them. And so that’s what we are doing too- we’re relocating. On Monday our bus will come back to Brighton for a debrief and some maintenance. Then we’ll decide where we go to next. There are refugees in many differe

This is the school designed by Kate McAllister and Joaquim Pinho and built and run by a beautiful community of young Sudanese men. It was an inspiring place. The people who used and loved it are moving on as the Jungle is cleared, but you can't burn education. Knowledge gets planted as a seed within humans and continues to grow long after buildings are destroyed and communities dispersed. It is incubated in places like Darfur School, nurtured by caring teachers, but flourishe

Well we've had a jam packed couple of weeks on board the bus! Lots of updates coming your way (don't worry I'll spread them out!) For the past few weeks we've had a regular group of 16 year olds coming to the bus who enjoy using the space to play music. These kids have music in their souls and the bus feels brighter when you can hear the rhythms they create floating down the bus stairs. So they were the perfect group to choose to do a radio workshop with the lovely team from