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Right now, there are hundreds of unaccompanied children in the refugee camp in Calais, known as the Jungle, who are trying to survive with no one to look after them. They are at constant risk of exploitation and abuse. That’s why we have made this short film featuring Maisie Williams, highlighting the dangers faced these children.
Comic Relief has a long and proud history of supporting refugees and asylum seekers, who have been forced to give up everything and flee from their homes. We’ve been funding projects working with refugees in the UK since 1993, and made our first international grant to support people displaced by conflict in 2006. In total, we have made almost £30 million in grants to fund projects that help to give people hope and provide them with the opportunity to rebuild lives that have been shattered by war, oppression and conflict.
This is why we are now supporting vital projects to bring these children to safety. We are working with Safe Passage(opens in new window) and Help Refugees(opens in new window), and have made emergency grants to fund their work helping vulnerable unaccompanied children with a legal right to travel to the UK to do so as quickly and safely as possible, as well as provide emergency provisions for those children and young people on site.
If you share our concern about the risks these children face, please help us raise awareness of this issue and the crucial work our partners are doing. Please watch and share our film.(opens in new window)
Let’s keep children safe.
