A British woman who has started a project to help refugees grow their own produce is looking for donations of supplies to build vegetable patches.
Juliet Taylor visited Calais migrant camp ‘The Jungle’ earlier this month and was moved by what she saw to start the grow-your-own project, local paper the Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser has reported. After hearing that large numbers of refugees are being moved to Dunkirk, Taylor now plans to return to France over Easter weekend to set up the scheme there.
A trained landscape gardener, Taylor plans to use her skills to build vegetable patches which refugees can manage themselves to produce their own food.
She said that sourcing wooden beams to construct the beds and the compost has been the biggest challenge, and has called for donations from anyone wanting to help.
'There were people offering me a place to stay and people offering me things to eat, and these are people who really do have nothing, it was amazing,” she told the paper.
To donate to the project email jsbach604@btinternet.com.
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