Early morning in the beginning of 2016 near the Jungle of Calais on January 18th, 2016. The authorities asked to evacuate a buffer zone near the highway, the refugees helped by volunteers move the shelters and tents past two days while temperatures are frosty.
Once the tent is gone, families are trying to keep their personal belongings on Friday, Jan 15th, 2016.
January 15th, 2016, Grande Synthe, France. A Kurdish girl is waiting for her turn when volunteers distribute clothes in this refugee camp on the outskirts of Dunkirk.
Two stuffed animals left in the mud of the Grande Synthe refugee camp, near Dunkirk. Horrible sanitary conditions and freezing temperatures make life on the camp particularly painful.
The refugee camp has settled on a vacant lot of the village. Nothing is planned to accommodate the life on the spot and the abundant rains, linked to the freezing temperatures of this beginning of January, make the life incredibly painful.
January 14th, 2016, Grande Synthe, France. A girl has just fetched some hot soup and tries to make her way through the wooden pallets in the camp. Heavy rains completely flooded the camp.
January 14th, 2016, Grande Synthe, France. Distribution of clothing and blankets in the camp by a group of volunteers from Belgium, everyone is fighting for something to warm.
January 16th, 2016, Grande Synthe, France. The refugee camp has settled on a vacant lot of the village. Nothing is planned to accommodate the life on the spot and the abundant rains, linked to the freezing temperatures of this beginning of January, make the life incredibly painful.
January 16th, 2016, Grande Synthe, France. Two vans from England bring clothes and a few wooden pallets to help the families on the camp. Building materials are prohibited by the municipality to avoid the construction of a second Jungle.
January 15th, 2016, Calais, France. The wind is icy in the Calais Jungle this morning, a young Sudanese walks among the makeshift shelters. Protecting yourself at all costs from the wind is essential.
January 16th, 2016, Grande Synthe, France. An Iraqi boy eats some bread offered by volunteers. Icy mud is present everywhere and respiratory infections are numerous.
January 16th, 2016, Calais, France. The jungle of Calais was organized and structured as best as they could. The refugee camp has, for example, a hairdresser.
January 15th, 2016. Early morning at Jungle of Calais in the Kurdish district of the camp. Today, a lot of tents or small houses will be displaced.
January 16th, 2016, Calais, France. The Calais ferry terminal has become a last virtually impenetrable border for the Calais Jungle refugees. England has largely financed the securing of the terminal.
January 18th, 2016, Calais, France. A group of refugees has just been unloaded from a truck after attempting a crossing to England. They try to reach the Calais Jungle by walking along the highway.
January 18th, 2016, Grande Synthe, France. The refugee camp has settled on a vacant lot of the village. Nothing is planned to accommodate the life on the spot and the abundant rains, linked to the freezing temperatures of this beginning of January, make the life incredibly painful.
January 15th, 2016, Grande Synthe, France. The refugee camp has settled on a vacant lot of the village. Nothing is planned to accommodate the life on the spot and the abundant rains, linked to the freezing temperatures of this beginning of January, make the life incredibly painful.
January 17th, 2016, Grande Synthe, France. Two young Kurds arrived in the afternoon at Grande Synthe camp, trying to build a shelter with the remains left by previous refugees.
January 15th, 2016. A man walks near a small river between this old refugee camp and the new building built to accommodate refugees in better sanitary conditions.
January 16th, 2016, Calais, France. The entrance to the Calais Jungle, located under a highway bridge, is often the place, in the evening, for calls to relatives left behind. It is also the place of organization for attempts to cross to England.
January 18th, 2016, Calais, France. The cold and frost cover the clothes and blankets left by the refugees who occupied this area of the Jungle of Calais a few days ago. The prefecture demanded that a buffer zone be maintained between the camp and the nearby highway.
January 16th, 2016, Calais, France. The buffer zone ordered by the prefecture of Calais begins to set up. In the evening, the young people of the Calais Jungle come to search the remains left by the other refugees.
January 15th, 2016, Grande Synthe, France. Every evening, in early January, a bus from England comes to provide a hot meal to the refugees of Grande Synthe camp.
January 17th, 2016, Grande Synthe, France. The cold is more and more present on the Grande Synthe refugee camp. Families are trying to warm up as they can. Sometimes even lighting fires in makeshift shelters. Fires are common in these shelters.
January 17th, 2016, Grande Synthe, France. The cold is more and more present on the Grande Synthe refugee camp. Families are trying to warm up as they can. Sometimes even lighting fires in makeshift shelters. Fires are common in these shelters.
January 17th, 2016, Grande Synthe, France. The cold is more and more present on the Grande Synthe refugee camp. Families are trying to warm up as they can. Sometimes even lighting fires in makeshift shelters. Fires are common in these shelters.
January 17th, 2016, Grande Synthe, France. The cold is more and more present on the Grande Synthe refugee camp. Families are trying to warm up as they can. Sometimes even lighting fires in makeshift shelters. Fires are common in these shelters.
