20 SHELTERS BUILT!

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We have been testing and perfecting our design with the available materials and budget. We are finally arriving on a design we are content with to roll out on mass scale. The 20th shelter has now gone up and inhabited! That was our original target for the second visit, so it is wonderful to have reached it. We've housed approximately 80-100 people, a least a third are children.

We have been working with Eva, a Spanish women who lives on site, who has been liaising with the different communities and ethnicities on site to try to allocate these houses to the most vulnerable and evenly amongst the different groups of migrants. This ensures fairness and placates existing tensions that sometimes flair up between the different nationalities.

A massive thanks to all the people who have given their time and effort so far. L'auberge de Migrant for funding the wood and supplying the workshop, Médecins Sans Frontières for their increasing input and assistance. To all our friends, old and new including Eamon and Barney on wrapping the fames. Sam Dooley, Joe B, Emma, Jody, Finn, Austin and Chris L on the chippie and build teams. Scottish David for coordinating installs and transport. Brid and the vents crew. Lee, Fred and Angus for setting up the workshop with me.

Definitely focused now on setting up a London workshop to give all the London crew an opportunity to contribute to this project without having to come all the way here for 3-4 days. We are hoping to find a free workshop space (A big dry open space with some plug points in London please) to run the rest of October and some of November.

Building 100 by Christmas is in the forefront of our minds and plans! That would house 400-500 which is getting on for 10% of the Jungle population.

Bring it! Thanks for your continued support and interest in this mission.
Family with there new shelter

Austin and Jody fitting the floor


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