0:00:02 > 0:00:06GULLS CRY, WAVES CRASH
0:00:19 > 0:00:23FERRY HORN HONKS
0:00:23 > 0:00:26CALL TO PRAYER
0:00:28 > 0:00:33This programme contains some strong language and some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59So, this is essentially the main access road
0:00:59 > 0:01:00into the centre of the camp.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04It leads straight into the very centre
0:01:04 > 0:01:05where the Sudan tent is
0:01:05 > 0:01:08and where the medic caravans used to be situated.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11This whole area here is New Eritrea.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15This is where a large majority of the Eritrean community live.
0:01:16 > 0:01:17And that's a real mixture,
0:01:17 > 0:01:21whereas the Afghan community here is predominantly men.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24I mean, obviously, the whole camp is predominantly male,
0:01:24 > 0:01:26however, within the Eritrean community,
0:01:26 > 0:01:30you do have a far larger proportion of women
0:01:30 > 0:01:32than in any of the other communities.
0:01:41 > 0:01:42Area on the left -
0:01:42 > 0:01:45the majority of the Kuwaiti and Iraqi community live.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48I mean, at one point, it was entirely Kuwaiti and Iraqi,
0:01:48 > 0:01:50and this was the Kuwaiti Bedouin mosque.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54I mean, the Iraqi and Kuwaiti community now
0:01:54 > 0:01:56are very small, just like the Syrian community.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04It might not be wise for us all to pass through here.
0:02:04 > 0:02:05So, this is a nightly thing.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08This is a bazaar, essentially, a market,
0:02:08 > 0:02:10where clothes,
0:02:10 > 0:02:13often donations, are sold on.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16I mean, I won't lie, there are some damn good deals in there.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18You'll find yourself a nice T-shirt for a euro.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20HE CHUCKLES But probably,
0:02:20 > 0:02:22for the safety of the camera crew...
0:02:22 > 0:02:24You walk through there, you might get mobbed.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29- ON RADIO:- We've got a fire. It looks like it's in the shelter.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31I'm just trying to find my way round there.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Copy that.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43Well, we always joke and say that the criteria
0:02:43 > 0:02:45for long-term volunteers is lost or broken.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51A series of unfortunate events maybe led to me feeling like
0:02:51 > 0:02:53I needed a purpose,
0:02:53 > 0:02:55and my job in England wasn't fulfilling that.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58And I came here to try and just form an opinion....
0:03:00 > 0:03:01..try and have a bit more understanding of it
0:03:01 > 0:03:03cos, if I'm honest,
0:03:03 > 0:03:05I didn't have any understanding of it before I came here.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08And I came here for a week and never left.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13But before this, I worked as a landscape gardener and tree surgeon.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Before that, I used to work in London and wear a suit.
0:03:16 > 0:03:17- Really?- Yeah.
0:03:17 > 0:03:22Art valuations for a big, wealthy Iraqi family.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29So, you've got the A16 that runs down here,
0:03:29 > 0:03:31which actually ends in the port,
0:03:31 > 0:03:33and here you have a multi-million-pound fence
0:03:33 > 0:03:35funded by British taxpayers.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40What do you feel about this place?
0:03:40 > 0:03:44- This place?- Yeah. - HE CHUCKLES
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Yeah, it's got to be one of the most contradicting feelings
0:03:46 > 0:03:48that you could ever feel.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53I detest the conditions that people are forced to live in.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56However, yeah, of course, I love it. I helped build it.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01I find a purpose here. That's the most important thing.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04So, even when I'm unhappy, I still have a purpose.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10SMALL EXPLOSIONS
0:05:21 > 0:05:24It was very much a smuggler's camp.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29This was sort of the main traffic route
0:05:29 > 0:05:31of people trying to get to England.
0:05:36 > 0:05:40Prices ran from £500 to £10,000,
0:05:40 > 0:05:46depending on your nationality and depending on the service you got.
0:05:47 > 0:05:52As it got more and more difficult to succeed into the UK,
0:05:52 > 0:05:57because of tightening of security at the border and so forth,
0:05:57 > 0:05:59it became more expensive.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02It's completely...
0:06:02 > 0:06:03It's business.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45The people who did not have any money
0:06:45 > 0:06:50became more and more desperate to climb into those lorries,
0:06:50 > 0:06:52and they invented ways,
0:06:52 > 0:06:56and one of the ways was to create a traffic jam.
0:07:36 > 0:07:41People go off and risk everything for this dream of UK.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47The alternative is for them to be deported back to Sudan
0:07:47 > 0:07:51or Ethiopia or Afghanistan.
0:07:57 > 0:08:01This is something that they are just not going to allow to happen,
0:08:01 > 0:08:03so they must go forwards, they must try.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12I knew people that tried every night.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15You'd see them get their coat on, you know,
0:08:15 > 0:08:17or you'd see them have this kind of look in their eye,
0:08:17 > 0:08:19and I'd be like, "Are you trying tonight?"
0:08:19 > 0:08:21And they'd be like, "Yeah."
0:15:16 > 0:15:20Ah, c'est ecrit en anglais. THEY LAUGH
0:15:20 > 0:15:21C'est util.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27We had 12 deliveries two days ago.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30I don't understand where it all comes from.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33Like, it's never-ending.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41We've got a welcome caravan in camp.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44That's where all the newcomers who arrive come to.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48They'll give them a tent and a welcome pack,
0:15:48 > 0:15:52and the welcome pack will contain a hygiene kit, a lamp,
0:15:52 > 0:15:56sleeping bag, roll mat, a little emergency food pack,
0:15:56 > 0:15:59gloves, scarf, hat and maybe socks. Sort of depends on what we've got.
0:16:01 > 0:16:05Hygiene section - fresh toothbrush, toothpaste,
0:16:05 > 0:16:07a razor so they can have a nice wet shave.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09It's like a very small thing that you can do,
0:16:09 > 0:16:13but, again, it's one of those things where it's like a little normality.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16And for the women, obviously, this is a really big thing, as well,
0:16:16 > 0:16:19because there are so many of the kind of creature comforts
0:16:19 > 0:16:23that are very, very difficult to get when you're here in the camp -
0:16:23 > 0:16:26shampoo, hair conditioner, hair oils and things like that.
0:16:36 > 0:16:37Basically, these food packs,
0:16:37 > 0:16:40one goes to every single tent and shelter every single week.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43It's all culturally appropriate food.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45So, before we were here, when it was just the government
0:16:45 > 0:16:48providing some meals for people in camp,
0:16:48 > 0:16:51a lot of what they were providing would be very heavily meat-based -
0:16:51 > 0:16:53not halal meat -
0:16:53 > 0:16:56or kind of very bland, sort of quite European-style food
0:16:56 > 0:16:59that just wasn't something that anyone was used to eating.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02They're doing tinned fish, as well, at the minute.
0:17:02 > 0:17:03Because things are difficult at the moment,
0:17:03 > 0:17:06we thought we'd do a push to give something nice and wholesome
0:17:06 > 0:17:08and fortifying.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12And then oil to cook with, onions,
0:17:12 > 0:17:13chickpeas or kidney...
0:17:13 > 0:17:15Oh, kidney beans. Chickpeas.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18Flour, so people can make breads.
0:17:18 > 0:17:19And tea bags and sugar.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26The Refugee Community Kitchen are currently serving
0:17:26 > 0:17:292,500 meals a day in camp.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35We've got absolutely loads of bags.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38This is one of the things we put a request out for on social media,
0:17:38 > 0:17:40and they just flooded in.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42The idea of being able to give people a bag
0:17:42 > 0:17:45that they can put all their stuff in, so it's not, like,
0:17:45 > 0:17:46trying to scramble around for a bin bag,
0:17:46 > 0:17:49or having to leave things that you want to keep.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51And when that's kind of all you've got,
0:17:51 > 0:17:54which, you know, it will be for many of the people leaving,
0:17:54 > 0:17:55being able to keep it dry
0:17:55 > 0:17:57and kind of walk out in a dignified way with your bag,
0:17:57 > 0:18:02we feel like it's a small thing that we can try and offer people.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04We've ordered 10,000 rain ponchos
0:18:04 > 0:18:06so we can make sure we put that in every bag.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08If only we had 10,000 pairs of socks
0:18:08 > 0:18:10and 10,000 gloves, it would be great.
0:18:15 > 0:18:192015 - 1 million people arrived on the shores of Europe.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25The images that we were seeing in the news were upsetting.
0:18:26 > 0:18:30I was really sick of just, like, putting something on Facebook
0:18:30 > 0:18:32to say that I was outraged
0:18:32 > 0:18:35and felt like I needed to do something a bit more,
0:18:35 > 0:18:38so myself and some other friends
0:18:38 > 0:18:42decided to raise £1,000
0:18:42 > 0:18:47and we started a hashtag, which was #helpcalais.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50It totally went viral.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54We ended up raising almost £56,000 in a week.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00There were originally four of us, and we worked from this table.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03We were desperate to help and to get some aid
0:19:03 > 0:19:05to people who really needed it,
0:19:05 > 0:19:08and we were fortunate enough to be able to do that.
0:19:09 > 0:19:14We started an Amazon wish list of all the most wanted items.
0:19:14 > 0:19:15They phoned us and said,
0:19:15 > 0:19:18"You're going to receive 7,000 packages tomorrow,"
0:19:18 > 0:19:20and we had absolutely no idea who we were going to give it to.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22We'd never even been to Calais.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Living conditions were horrific.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35Men, women, children were living in mud.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38There was no point giving somebody a sleeping bag
0:19:38 > 0:19:43and some fresh clothes and some food if they had no shelter.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51Using the internet and social media, calls were put out for builders
0:19:51 > 0:19:53and carpenters and build teams, and people just came.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02We were basically the driving force behind building the camp.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08There were times when we were knocking out over 20 houses a day.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12In six or seven months,
0:20:12 > 0:20:15it got turned from a tent city...
0:20:17 > 0:20:22..to an entire shantytown with 1,500 shelters in total.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29You know, God, we built a town.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Was that the right thing to do?
0:20:32 > 0:20:35The whole time, it was like, "We shouldn't be doing this.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39"Please someone come that knows how to do it.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43"But if no-one will, then we'll try and do the very best that we can."
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Help Refugees spent almost £2 million
0:20:48 > 0:20:50in Calais over the two years,
0:20:50 > 0:20:54but probably there's double in kind if you take into account
0:20:54 > 0:20:57all the donated goods and the donated volunteer hours.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07Everyone here is so focused on helping the people
0:21:07 > 0:21:11and so dedicated to giving all of their energy
0:21:11 > 0:21:13and all of their time to these people,
0:21:13 > 0:21:15and you think, "The world's changing."
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Like, "Oh, my God." Like, "People actually care."
0:21:19 > 0:21:24And then you go on Facebook and it just knocks you.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27"Why are we letting these cockroaches into our country?
0:21:27 > 0:21:29"They don't deserve to be here. They're scum."
0:21:29 > 0:21:34Like, and...you think, "Fuck."
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Our government is going to show this week
0:22:16 > 0:22:19that he has muscles, you know? They are going to...
0:22:19 > 0:22:23They want to show that they are really...
0:22:23 > 0:22:25They really want to destroy,
0:22:25 > 0:22:28and probably they also want to push people out of the camp.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14The police are giving the legal notice for the eviction of the shops
0:23:14 > 0:23:18and so they're nailing the formal notice to the doors of the shops.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25Essentially, it's going to just be more of this every day
0:23:25 > 0:23:27and then, probably next week,
0:23:27 > 0:23:29they're going to start a full eviction.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32I think when the French envisioned...
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Like, what they envisioned for this place was that,
0:23:34 > 0:23:37rather then having the nuisance of having all these people,
0:23:37 > 0:23:39like, spread all over the place,
0:23:39 > 0:23:41they could just have them in one place
0:23:41 > 0:23:44and it'd be easy to control it, and they didn't really ever imagine
0:23:44 > 0:23:47that it would get to the size that it is now.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51It's the biggest slum in Europe.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53CALL TO PRAYER
0:24:59 > 0:25:04Tomorrow, 3,000 people are expected to leave.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06I don't know how the French authorities
0:25:06 > 0:25:09can possibly imagine that they're going to get 3,000 people
0:25:09 > 0:25:12out of this place in a calm manner.
0:25:12 > 0:25:16I don't know how they're imagining that they're going to herd them out
0:25:16 > 0:25:18to be processed in a warehouse.
0:25:19 > 0:25:24I really don't understand how they think that's going to work.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33Everything in the shop finished tonight, yeah?
0:25:33 > 0:25:38Because if you are not finished, the police can come and arrest, OK?
0:25:38 > 0:25:39All right.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42I think the idea in the government's head is,
0:25:42 > 0:25:44"Yeah, they'll just form an orderly line
0:25:44 > 0:25:46"and that'll be fine, and then we'll just bulldoze the camp down
0:25:46 > 0:25:49"a few weeks later and it'll be gone."
0:25:49 > 0:25:51And that's just...
0:25:51 > 0:25:54They're not going to go without a protest, without a fight.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56They're not going to do that.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58And they'll burn the camp down whilst doing that.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12It was decided the volunteers weren't going to fight fires.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15We were going to leave it to the refugees.
0:26:15 > 0:26:19And then a few of us basically said, "Sorry to break it to you, guys,
0:26:19 > 0:26:23"but a lot of the refugees will just leave or avoid the fires.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25"They're not going to be putting them out.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31"These fires will spread really fast.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33"Somebody will get caught in them.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36"We need to have an active fire response team."
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Down towards no man's land on the left-hand side. Over.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42"Basically, stop anyone dying from a fire.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46"This whole camp is going to go up in flames.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49"The entire thing is going to burn down."
0:27:48 > 0:27:51Lots of people have been waiting to leave the Jungle for months,
0:27:51 > 0:27:54so today is finally the day they get to go,
0:27:54 > 0:27:55and they get to stay in France.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57You know, people in the UK often ask, like,
0:27:57 > 0:27:59"Why do they all want to come to England?"
0:27:59 > 0:28:01It's like, "A lot of them want to stay in France.
0:28:01 > 0:28:05"They're just not... France isn't coping with the demand of people."
0:28:08 > 0:28:09I kind of think that the refugee situation
0:28:09 > 0:28:12is pretty much a fact of modern life.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15We can kind of try and just destroy the areas where they're living
0:28:15 > 0:28:17and try and disperse them and just make it look better
0:28:17 > 0:28:20and kind of clean them. They're calling it "nettoyage".
0:28:21 > 0:28:25That doesn't actually stop anything, really, but it looks good.
0:28:40 > 0:28:43MEN SHOUT, WHISTLE BLOWS
0:28:44 > 0:28:46Go back. Please, go back.
0:28:46 > 0:28:49- Please, go back. - Please! Please, go back.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22If you push, you don't pass, so sit down now.
0:29:22 > 0:29:25One by one, OK?
0:29:36 > 0:29:38Hello. How are you?
0:30:17 > 0:30:18You have to wait, OK?
0:30:18 > 0:30:21Either you have to wait and then you come back in the camp
0:30:21 > 0:30:23- and you wait for another time, OK? - Thank you.
0:30:23 > 0:30:25- OK, no problem. No problem.- Thank you.
0:30:35 > 0:30:41MAN GIVES INSTRUCTIONS IN OWN LANGUAGE OVER LOUDSPEAKER
0:30:47 > 0:30:50It's been a huge work.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53Two years to explain to those people
0:30:53 > 0:30:56that there was no future for them there in Calais.
0:30:57 > 0:31:01That there was no possibility for them to go to the UK.
0:31:03 > 0:31:07There was a solution, which was to seek asylum in France.
0:31:09 > 0:31:12I think that many French people did not understand
0:31:12 > 0:31:15why we had to go to Calais to convince people
0:31:15 > 0:31:17who wanted to go to the UK to stay in France.
0:31:20 > 0:31:23I was always telling them,
0:31:23 > 0:31:25"If you accept to go to accommodation centres,
0:31:25 > 0:31:27"you will see the true face of France."
0:31:27 > 0:31:30And they saw it - protection.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35- You know where you go? - In a centre. A better life.
0:31:35 > 0:31:39No Jungle life. No animal life. Like a man's life.
0:31:47 > 0:31:51They're actually leaving, which is really surprising.
0:31:51 > 0:31:54I didn't think that many people would actually go.
0:31:54 > 0:31:56But I think it's like herding sheep, isn't it?
0:31:56 > 0:31:58One goes and the rest go.
0:32:00 > 0:32:02I think a lot of people are still confused.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05People are still asking, "Does this mean we go to UK?
0:32:05 > 0:32:07"Does this mean we're going to get to UK?"
0:32:07 > 0:32:09They're not really sure what the buses are for,
0:32:09 > 0:32:11but they know that it'll be a better life than this,
0:32:11 > 0:32:13so I think people are more willing to leave.
0:32:21 > 0:32:23If it's not this Jungle, it'll be another Jungle.
0:32:23 > 0:32:25The Jungle's been going on for 20 years
0:32:25 > 0:32:27and I don't see it stopping any time soon.
0:32:27 > 0:32:30There's too many refugees in the world that need a better life.
0:32:30 > 0:32:32It's just not possible for it to end.
0:32:33 > 0:32:35They can try and control it all they want,
0:32:35 > 0:32:38but I think in about five, six months,
0:32:38 > 0:32:40it'll be the same thing.
0:32:44 > 0:32:47Don't know. It's got to end at some point, doesn't it?
0:32:49 > 0:32:53DRUMS PLAY, MAN SINGS
0:33:07 > 0:33:11Be advised, the legal centre has a large generator in it. Over.
0:33:19 > 0:33:21- That is going to be big.- Copy that.
0:33:21 > 0:33:24There's a few things that seem to be popping on the fire. Over.
0:33:24 > 0:33:25We'll keep our eyes on it.
0:33:30 > 0:33:32Gas.
0:33:34 > 0:33:37I'd say the situation is way more complicated
0:33:37 > 0:33:41than any of us knew or know.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44I went out originally with a kind of open mind for being like,
0:33:44 > 0:33:47"Is this the right thing to do?"
0:33:47 > 0:33:49Like, "Should we be helping people here?
0:33:49 > 0:33:53"Should...? You know, is this the best place for them?"
0:33:53 > 0:33:55And after going there, it was...
0:33:55 > 0:33:58I was blown away by how complicated it was
0:33:58 > 0:34:01and the fact that you've got, you know,
0:34:01 > 0:34:04thousands of different people there for different reasons.
0:34:04 > 0:34:07- ON RADIO:- We'll get one of us to look at that and one of us can stay here.
0:34:07 > 0:34:10And it's trying to find a way to help the people who needed it.
0:34:10 > 0:34:11Copy that.
0:34:11 > 0:34:13If you didn't have volunteers there,
0:34:13 > 0:34:16the people who were looking out for people in that camp
0:34:16 > 0:34:19were either the French authorities or the criminal organisations.
0:34:19 > 0:34:20- ON RADIO:- Fire truck heading out.
0:34:20 > 0:34:23And I don't think anyone should be put in the hands of
0:34:23 > 0:34:24either of those groups.
0:34:29 > 0:34:30What's that fire down there?
0:34:32 > 0:34:34There's a new one. That looks like it's on the road.
0:35:01 > 0:35:03EXPLOSION
0:35:31 > 0:35:33SPEECH DROWNED OUT BY FIRE
0:35:44 > 0:35:47We noticed that, as we went to one side of the camp
0:35:47 > 0:35:49to put out a live structure that was on fire...
0:35:50 > 0:35:54..another prominent structure on the far side of the camp would catch.
0:35:57 > 0:36:01So, there certainly became an element of cat and mouse
0:36:01 > 0:36:05between us as responders and whoever it was who was lighting fires.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12What we expected, but less fighting,
0:36:12 > 0:36:14which is, I guess, one small bonus.
0:36:15 > 0:36:18A lot of fire. A lot of large fires.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29You had many residents with nowhere to go
0:36:29 > 0:36:33being told that they must leave, and not knowing what was coming.
0:36:33 > 0:36:35I think they just wanted to carry on
0:36:35 > 0:36:38as normally as they could and get as much sleep as they could
0:36:38 > 0:36:41before they faced the homelessness of the following week.
0:36:41 > 0:36:44And so, remarkable to me as it seemed
0:36:44 > 0:36:47that people would still be sleeping while the camp was burning down,
0:36:47 > 0:36:49they WERE still sleeping. We did wake people up.
0:36:57 > 0:37:01In eviction times, people set fire to their shelters,
0:37:01 > 0:37:03claiming what is theirs.
0:37:05 > 0:37:08It was definitely the refugees that were setting the fires
0:37:08 > 0:37:12and I was just there to make sure that no-one really was injured.
0:37:21 > 0:37:24Instinctively, the point was to get the gas out,
0:37:24 > 0:37:27to preserve life as best we can.
0:37:34 > 0:37:37Whoa! Fucking hell. Fucking hell.
0:37:49 > 0:37:51Fucking hell.
0:37:57 > 0:38:01I'd lost count roughly, but it was in the thirties -
0:38:01 > 0:38:0430 or 40 gas canisters that I'd removed.
0:38:05 > 0:38:07You know, I did what I could to help
0:38:07 > 0:38:09and then I just stopped to take a breather.
0:38:09 > 0:38:12FIRE CRACKLES OUTSIDE
0:38:17 > 0:38:19I was sat in the caravan just trying to catch my breath
0:38:19 > 0:38:21and collect my thoughts.
0:38:22 > 0:38:26Sure enough, it was definitely time to leave.
0:38:26 > 0:38:28Jungle finished, my friend. Pow!
0:38:28 > 0:38:33HE HUMS Fire!
0:38:33 > 0:38:34Fucking hell.
0:38:40 > 0:38:43EXPLOSION
0:38:43 > 0:38:44Jungle blaze.
0:38:54 > 0:38:58It was this feeling of, "Thank God this place has gone,"
0:38:58 > 0:39:02and, "Thank God that people are safe."
0:39:02 > 0:39:06But, I guess, in a really strange way,
0:39:06 > 0:39:08the Jungle was my home...
0:39:13 > 0:39:15..which is kind of bad to say, but it's true.
0:39:15 > 0:39:20It was where I lived, I hung out, I ate, I drank chai.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23You know, I listened to music, I chatted to friends,
0:39:23 > 0:39:26and I built it, as well, with a lot of other people.
0:39:26 > 0:39:32And so watching it all burn down was...quite shocking.
0:39:36 > 0:39:37You could understand it -
0:39:37 > 0:39:39you know, them wanting to get rid of the Jungle,
0:39:39 > 0:39:43because it gradually became a cesspit of a lot of dangerous stuff.
0:39:48 > 0:39:50I was glad to see the place go.
0:39:52 > 0:39:55Particularly towards the end of my time working there
0:39:55 > 0:39:58and living there, I felt like it was an awful place.
0:39:58 > 0:40:03I mean, it definitely was. No-one should have had to live there.
0:42:20 > 0:42:236,000 people went away from Calais
0:42:23 > 0:42:25for the accommodation centres all around France.
0:42:27 > 0:42:28Of those 6,000 people,
0:42:28 > 0:42:32how many have obtained asylum in France?
0:42:32 > 0:42:36Nearly 70%.
0:42:36 > 0:42:3870%, which is a very high level.
0:42:38 > 0:42:43You know that, on average, for all asylum seekers in France,
0:42:43 > 0:42:45it's about 40%.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00There was no future in Calais for them,
0:43:00 > 0:43:01and I want to say that again,
0:43:01 > 0:43:03including for now and for the future.
0:43:04 > 0:43:07There is no reason to go to Calais.
0:43:09 > 0:43:13It's over. People don't have to go back to Calais.
0:43:13 > 0:43:15It's over. Calais is over.
0:43:28 > 0:43:31They did a proper job.
0:43:31 > 0:43:33It's ridiculous, isn't it? What a fucking waste.
0:43:35 > 0:43:38Strange to think how small this piece of land actually looks.
0:43:38 > 0:43:40It's incredible how much could actually fit
0:43:40 > 0:43:41into such a small space.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46These past couple of weeks have been surreal.
0:43:46 > 0:43:48It all ended very suddenly,
0:43:48 > 0:43:52and it's been my life for the best part of a year.
0:43:52 > 0:43:53So...
0:43:54 > 0:43:57So, honestly, I don't know how I feel about it, but...
0:43:59 > 0:44:01..it's certainly not a nice thing to look at.
0:44:34 > 0:44:39The idea is that this whole warehouse gets emptied.
0:44:39 > 0:44:43One of the objectives was to downscale,
0:44:43 > 0:44:45basically, the whole operation.
0:44:45 > 0:44:47Obviously, before, we were set up here
0:44:47 > 0:44:51to provide aid to, like, 10,000 people just down the road.
0:44:51 > 0:44:54And now we feel like it's still important that we're here
0:44:54 > 0:44:56because we're providing aid to Dunkirk
0:44:56 > 0:44:59and other small camps and to people that are returning to Calais.
0:44:59 > 0:45:01But it doesn't need to be as big as it was.
0:45:02 > 0:45:04It's quieter here, as well.
0:45:04 > 0:45:06The number of volunteers has really reduced.
0:45:06 > 0:45:09So, we've got a really dedicated team here,
0:45:09 > 0:45:13who are working really hard to make this space make sense
0:45:13 > 0:45:15and make sure that all the things we get in
0:45:15 > 0:45:17are turned around very quickly
0:45:17 > 0:45:20and got out to the people that need them.
0:45:20 > 0:45:23But we're kind of really low on people
0:45:23 > 0:45:26and the number of donations has really dropped, as well,
0:45:26 > 0:45:28so we're always struggling
0:45:28 > 0:45:31for things like sleeping bags to give out to people
0:45:31 > 0:45:33that's really desperately needed
0:45:33 > 0:45:35in all the places that we're still giving aid to.
0:45:38 > 0:45:40On balance, we were all happy to see it go,
0:45:40 > 0:45:44but we miss the things that it gave to us.
0:45:44 > 0:45:46I can't really believe that maybe a team of, like...
0:45:46 > 0:45:48A core team of kind of five or six of us
0:45:48 > 0:45:52managed to get food to 10,000 people every week.
0:45:52 > 0:45:56It seems like... I mean, it's just crazy, and I'm really...
0:45:56 > 0:45:58I'm like, "If it was somebody else that told me that,
0:45:58 > 0:46:00"I'd be really impressed with them."
0:46:00 > 0:46:02So, I try and be impressed with myself!
0:46:08 > 0:46:11Having dismantled the camp
0:46:11 > 0:46:15has actually worsened the situation in Paris.
0:46:15 > 0:46:19This is really where you see that we did not solve the problem.
0:46:19 > 0:46:21We just moved it to another place.
0:46:29 > 0:46:32You cannot stop the flow of human beings.
0:46:32 > 0:46:35You know, human beings are resilient.
0:46:35 > 0:46:37Human beings are courageous.
0:46:38 > 0:46:41If they risk their life in their country,
0:46:41 > 0:46:43then it doesn't make any difference
0:46:43 > 0:46:46if they risk their life trying to reach their dreams.
0:46:48 > 0:46:51You cannot stop them.
0:46:51 > 0:46:57When you block water in one place, the water goes to another place.
0:46:59 > 0:47:02The flow of human beings is the same.
0:48:53 > 0:48:56Hi! How are you?
0:48:56 > 0:49:00Yeah, I'm good, thank you. A bit more rice?
0:49:00 > 0:49:03SHE LAUGHS Happy to see you guys.
0:49:03 > 0:49:06Is that enough? Little bit more?
0:49:06 > 0:49:09A lot more? You like rice.
0:49:09 > 0:49:10There you go.
0:49:18 > 0:49:19Merci. Au revoir.
0:49:23 > 0:49:26We've been told we have one hour to distribute,
0:49:26 > 0:49:28and then it's finished.
0:49:28 > 0:49:32In fact, they don't have any legal right to move us on.
0:49:32 > 0:49:33We can stay as long as we like.
0:49:33 > 0:49:36We'll stay here until everyone's been fed.
0:49:38 > 0:49:42I'm not sure how they'll respond exactly, but we'll see.
0:49:50 > 0:49:54Here we are in Calais, nine months later.
0:49:54 > 0:49:57We're only about two or three minutes down the road from the camp
0:49:57 > 0:49:59and we're just repeating it again.
0:49:59 > 0:50:01Same story, different scene, different characters.
0:50:03 > 0:50:06The kids from the Calais clearance last year are still here.
0:50:06 > 0:50:09They had family in the UK. Their case has been rejected.
0:50:09 > 0:50:10They didn't get a clear explanation why.
0:50:10 > 0:50:12They didn't receive any paper.
0:50:12 > 0:50:14They've kind of come back here to the streets
0:50:14 > 0:50:16to keep trying to get on lorries.
0:50:20 > 0:50:23Britain spends a lot of time trying to discuss with itself
0:50:23 > 0:50:27about how it doesn't want an open door policy,
0:50:27 > 0:50:30yet what it fails to realise is that there's a back window policy.
0:50:30 > 0:50:33People CAN come here and if you're fast, if you're strong,
0:50:33 > 0:50:35if you can hold it together long enough,
0:50:35 > 0:50:38eventually, you might make it onto a lorry.
0:50:45 > 0:50:47I'm not even going to begin to pretend
0:50:47 > 0:50:49like I know the answer as to what's needed here,
0:50:49 > 0:50:51but I'm just not really sure Europe knows
0:50:51 > 0:50:54what the problem is at the minute.
0:50:54 > 0:50:56I don't have to feel the bigger questions, but right now,
0:50:56 > 0:51:00young people need support, guidance, love, acceptance,
0:51:00 > 0:51:02and that's what we can do at the minute.
0:51:02 > 0:51:03It's not going to fix everything,
0:51:03 > 0:51:06but it just seems the basics that we can start with
0:51:06 > 0:51:08while we wait for our leaders to really come together
0:51:08 > 0:51:10and decide what it is they expect from this crisis here in Europe.
0:51:22 > 0:51:24The situation now is far worse.
0:51:25 > 0:51:28Now what we see on the streets is just mass homelessness.
0:51:29 > 0:51:33What they've created is a far more complex and...
0:51:36 > 0:51:39..more unmanageable problem than what was here before.
0:51:47 > 0:51:48WHISTLE BLOWS
0:51:54 > 0:52:00I'm really concerned about being a part of facilitating a new camp.
0:52:02 > 0:52:06But it's just a complex situation that we are just a tiny part of.
0:52:14 > 0:52:18So, you've got a 15-year-old who's sleeping rough.
0:52:18 > 0:52:20It's minus five outside.
0:52:20 > 0:52:23Is it the right thing to give him a sleeping bag and a tent?
0:52:25 > 0:52:27If you don't give them a tent and a sleeping bag,
0:52:27 > 0:52:30they might freeze to death in Calais.
0:52:30 > 0:52:32If that was a 15-year-old English boy,
0:52:32 > 0:52:34that's never what you would do. You would never do that.
0:52:37 > 0:52:39I've decided, in the end,
0:52:39 > 0:52:42that one of the most important things that we can do here
0:52:42 > 0:52:46is show humanity to other human beings
0:52:46 > 0:52:48who are being shown no humanity whatsoever
0:52:48 > 0:52:51by the system and by individuals.
0:53:09 > 0:53:11The more that I understand about this situation,
0:53:11 > 0:53:16the more that I feel overwhelmed by how little it is that I can do.
0:53:16 > 0:53:19But I'm glad that I can see it now,
0:53:19 > 0:53:22and that I'm not someone who's going to look back on it in 20 years' time
0:53:22 > 0:53:23and feel ashamed of myself.
0:53:23 > 0:53:25I might feel like I wish I'd done more,
0:53:25 > 0:53:28but I won't feel ashamed of myself for not doing something.
0:54:34 > 0:54:35It's difficult.
0:54:43 > 0:54:44What were you escaping from?
0:54:48 > 0:54:49- Indefinite?- Indefinite, yeah.
0:56:50 > 0:56:51They didn't find me.