Suzanne Harrington’s daughter volunteers at the refugee shanty town in Calais

On World Refugee Week, Suzanne Harrington’s daughter took a trip most other teens wouldn’t. She volunteered at the refugee shanty town in Calais known as the Jungle.

Suzanne Harrington’s daughter volunteers at the refugee shanty town in Calais

On a recent bank holiday weekend, my daughter and her friend, who are both 15, helped out at the refugee shanty town in Calais known as the Jungle.

For two days, they worked in a nearby warehouse, a hive of volunteer activity in a run-down industrial estate on the edge of France’s least lovely town.

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