Safe Passage UK is working to to help save unaccompanied refugee children in the Calais Jungle. They have identified 387 lone children in the camp who have a legal right to come to the UK, including 187 who have close family here. So far, Safe Passage has been able to bring over around 50 of them, but the camp is set to be closed soon, and in the last eviction more than 100 children went ‘missing’. 

It costs around £2000 to cover the cost of relocating one of these young people to the UK. We would like to try and help make sure that one more child makes it here before winter.

Together we will be running a 10k race (at varying paces!) in London in November. We all have our own goals for the race, but the competition will be to see who can raise the most as well as who can run the fastest! Please give whatever you can, it would be amazing to know that together we could help to remove a vulnerable young person from a chaotic and dangerous situation, and perhaps even reunite them with their family.

The Safe Passage UK emergency fund was set up by Citizens UK, an organisation which brings together civil society groups to work together for the common good. We heard about the Emergency Fund campaign through this article in The Observer:

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/11/refugees-calais-children-kindertransport-britain-migrants