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Filmmaker’s bid to raise ?10k for Calais
A Bristol filmmaker is attempting to raise £10,000 to provide running water and better sanitation in the refugee and migrant camps in northern France.
Elizabeth Mizon, 27, from Kingsdown, saw the lack of adequate facilities when she went to Calais to volunteer earlier this year.
“On the first day, we were sorting clothes in the warehouse,” she told Bristol24/7. “On the second, we went to the camp to help clear rubbish.
“Immediately it was clear that I could be of more use being a pair of hands and providing help with sanitation than by donating clothes and food.
“There is an abundance of clothing, and it’s needed, of course, because there’s no ability to wash anything, but what is really needed is infrastructure and money to enable the ongoing effort toward it.”
Having teamed up with charities Acted and Doctors Without Borders, she now plans to raise £10,000 to provide more fresh water points, more bins and refuse collection points, and increase the number of latrines.
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