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| Supplies are being donated across Europe to help support people who have arrived on the continent this summer as refugees. Grassroots organisations are advertising collections and drop-offs, as well as demonstrations and vigils, to show support for thousands of refugees travelling through and staying in temporary camps in Greece, France, Germany, Hungary and Austria. | Supplies are being donated across Europe to help support people who have arrived on the continent this summer as refugees. Grassroots organisations are advertising collections and drop-offs, as well as demonstrations and vigils, to show support for thousands of refugees travelling through and staying in temporary camps in Greece, France, Germany, Hungary and Austria. |
| One of these groups, Calais Action, which began delivering donations to refugees in Calais in August, has been charting these community efforts in the UK and Europe. To raise awareness of the ways in which the public can help, people can submit details of organised collections and trips to donate using this form. Calais Action has produced a crowdsourced map of activities so far with all major giving groups contributing, according to the organisation. | |
| With your help we’d like to build on this great mapping effort by documenting the spread of grassroots activity and help people discover what’s happening where they are. We’d also like to understand the spread of community activity and response from the public. | With your help we’d like to build on this great mapping effort by documenting the spread of grassroots activity and help people discover what’s happening where they are. We’d also like to understand the spread of community activity and response from the public. |
| If you are organising an event, demonstration, collection of donations, drop-off of supplies or another activity in support of the refugees, let us know in the form below. | If you are organising an event, demonstration, collection of donations, drop-off of supplies or another activity in support of the refugees, let us know in the form below. |