In the North of France, there is a city called Calais that has up to 4500 Refugees with NO aid organisation.
Most volunteers come alone.

A group of very close friends who’ve met through BJJ wanted help refugees that aren’t being looked at.

Calais refugees

What is their goal?

Project organiser Mike Yousif stated:

Our main focus is to save as much lives as possible with the upcoming strong winter. With your donation we will buy supplies to build isolated shelters. We will start with one and build more. During the day we will let the kids play inside and teach them some Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. At night the building will provide as a big sleeping place for women, kids, sick refugees and new refugees arriving to the ‘jungle’ . In the morning we disinfect the mats so when the kids wake up they can play again and start a new day.

We do cook the whole day through and hand out meals. We have each personally spend hundreds of EUR on building our Restaurant at the beginning of the camp. We walk through the camp and give a sticker to the ones who need it the most. In exchange for the sticker they get a free warm meal and a bottle of water.

Tents Don’t Work

Most men sleep during the day since its warmer and stay active at night to bare the cold. Kids cannot do this. The sad reality is that they will die. Most men will survive. But women and children won’t.
Just like the mats outside shown on the picture symbolise that tents are no shelter for a strong winter, the amount of cash is a symbolism. Winters hit -4°C (24Degrees) with a strong atlantic ocean wind.

To help them out:

https://www.gofundme.com/455bb4vk

https://www.facebook.com/Refugee-BJJ-853255208128248/timeline/