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A YOUNG British couple are challenging the way people think about the Calais crisis after their crowd-funding emergency appeal for donations reached almost £3,000 yesterday — 600 per cent of their target.
Mona Dohle and Syed Bokhari decided to raise £500 to bring essential basic food and medical supplies to the French refugee camp dubbed “the jungle,” but were quickly forced to expand to a convoy due to an overwhelming response.
Mr Bokhari, himself a one-time asylum-seeker from Pakistan, felt it was his duty to do something for those going through situations similar to the one his family experienced.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
