Sunday 17th August
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Report written by StephDucat
Another session with Care4Calais, but Steph Ducat was the only regular to assist Tamzin. Today we welcomed Sylvia for her 1st Goodgym session. Both Ariane and Maxime are not newbies, but also their 1st session with Care4Calais. Today was not our usual task with preparing clothes with different items and sizes. Tamzin and her husband are having works done in the house, which also includes the different rooms where loads of items are stored and packed once prepared. Our mission was to move all the items from the main storage on the 1st floor to the 2nd floor in order for the contractors to be able to work in those.In one hour with some lifting, moving boxes, bags etc the team with Tamzin and her husband cleared the room. Tamzin was overwelmed and didnt think we would have completed that task so quickly. We all stopped for some water as very hot and dusty due to the works being done in the house. As we still had 1 hour left, Tamzin said lets go to the ware house in Ealing to prepare bags/parcels for the 4pm collection. This was also a first as short road trip!!No singing in the car. Once arrived we started to unload the car and get parcels ready with adding shioes to the ready made bags, but we encounted a small problem. We were missing bags to add the shoes, so Steph Ducat ran to local shops to find bags Tamzin needed...not easy task as they didnt have what we wanted .....so after 3 stores found what we needed. Back at the ware house and the crew cracked on and all the shoes were added, labels added and boxed/bagged by destination ready for thwe 4pm collection. Shoe-t for the stars!
Care4Calais is a volunteer run charity delivering essential aid and support to refugees living in the UK, Northern France and Belgium. We believe in a fair and tolerant British society and advocate for a welcoming and inclusive attitude towards refugees. Operating year round, our focus is to provide warm clothing, bedding, food and medical assistance to people in desperate need. We also provide social support and interaction, including language lessons and sports and music workshops.
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