QVA in Calais
Volunteers for Quaker Voluntary Action have spent a week in Calais
Eleven volunteers for Quaker Voluntary Action (QVA) headed for Calais last month to start work at the Help Refugees warehouse. Friends from Meetings in Great Britain and the Netherlands spent the week from 15-19 July translating documents and preparing food for daily distribution in Calais and Dunkirk with the Refugee Community Kitchen.
According to Hannah Brock Womack, working retreats coordinator for QVA, the group were also busy ‘making a weighted blanket for an autistic child, organising wooden palettes so they can be cut up as firewood for those living outside, cleaning a house [used by at-risk people] and sorting donated clothes for those living destitute’.
There were also ‘reflection sessions’ on QVA’s theme for the year: ‘God in the movements of peoples.’ QVA plans to return in November.
