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✨ COME TOGETHER IN SOLIDARITY. At Calais Appeal, we're working to provide dignified, human support to people on the move at the UK–France border this winter. ✊ Stand in solidarity.Help us raise £25,000! 🔗https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/together-in-solidarity

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧Women and families have limited to no access to emergency shelters. They are forced to sleep outside, unprotected. Women are underrepresented and made invisible in living sites mostly populated by men, and yet their needs are the most ignored. 1/4🧵

📢 Call out for graphic design help! Calais Appeal’s fundraising team is building a team of volunteers with graphic design skills to help with the presentation of fundraising materials. If you’re interested, please send us a DM or email [email protected] with a few examples of your work!

Hostile border policies didn’t lead to a decrease in Channel crossings, but to increasing danger and life-threatening situations. Boats are more overcrowded and departures are pushed further away from the English coast. 1/4🧵

📱 At the border access to reliable information & translation services for people on the move is far from easy. Most of the information comes from social media or word of mouth. In Calais and Dunkirk this vital work relies on local NGOs. 1/4🧵

At the Fr-UK border, 2024 was the deadliest year for children. Since 2018, 1/5 of those excluded from safe routes to the UK have been children. Average age? Just 7 yo. Every child deserves school, safety, and dignity, not violence. #ProtectChildrenNotBorders #ChildRights 1/4🧵

🚨In Calais & Dunkirk the State is failing its legal duty to provide emergency shelter. Every night, 500 to 2,000 people are forced to sleep outside: in the cold, the streets, or abandoned buildings. 1/4🧵

💧Water. Hygiene. Dignity. In Calais & Dunkirk, people on the move are denied basic rights: clean water, showers, toilets, & waste collection. Here’s what’s happening — and why it matters. 1/6🧵

🚨 Thousands at the France-UK border live without safety, stability, or basic rights. 📢 Calais Appeal unites 6 orgs providing food, shelter & support — and demanding: - Safe routes - Freedom of movement - End to border violence - Access to basic services Stand with us. ✊