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CHARITY

Welcome to the Break time: Udonna
and his team

Future Leader Udonna
Obi talks about leading ‘JUNGLE’
a group of volunteers

to help clean refugee
camps in Calais

atching the news and and to do whatever it took to play
W seeing the devastation and our part.
magnitude of the largest
We concentrated our e orts
W humanitarian crises the
world has faced in years caused me to
known as the ‘Jungle’. On rst
world has faced in years caused me to on the refugee camp in Calais,
respond. I knew that on my own, there arrival, I realised the reason for
respond. I knew that on my own, there
was little I could do to solve the issue, so I the name. Sanitary conditions
was little I could do to solve the issue, so I
decided to join an NGO who could. were appalling, with waste
decided to join an NGO who could.
In the summer of 2016, I became a near sleeping and eating
In the summer of 2016, I became a
member of Greenlight UK, a charity that
member of Greenlight UK, a charity that areas. We were put
established itself by providing non- in teams to clean
established itself by providing non-
invasive healthcare for the homeless in
invasive healthcare for the homeless in up the Jungle,
London, but has which is now taking up
London, but has which is now taking up combining
the challenge of responding to the global
the challenge of responding to the global our resources
Jungle-bound: But there’s crisis. We shared the same vision of with other
crisis. We shared the same vision of
always time for a group photo
refusing to ignore what was happening organisations.
refusing to ignore what was happening
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