Generosity overwhelms High Wycombe Friends
High Wycombe Friends receive donations for refugees
High Wycombe Quakers have received so many donations of goods for refugees that they are no longer able to accept anything other than non-perishable food items.
Friends have been working with the High Wycombe Donations for Refugees Group to help organise donations of food, clothing and other essential items for refugees stranded in the camp at Calais or in transit elsewhere in Europe. The items received include tents, food, warm clothes, and toiletries, High Wycombe Quaker Tim Cook told the Friend. Food contributions alone fill eight thirty-litre plastic boxes, he added.
Volunteers will take the items that have been received to Calais in October. They will work with those already on the ground there to distribute them.
Tim concluded: ‘We have been active in helping to coordinate the work and sort the donations at the central collection point so they can be loaded into the lorry that will be transporting them. One of the joys for us in this has been working with, and getting to know better, everyone else involved, including many from the Muslim community’.
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