The Jungle refugee camp in Calais, France. Anthony Devlin/Press Association Images, all rights reserved.
This summer I am cycling across Europe, following the routes of migration back towards Syria, trying to learn as much as I can about how the current crisis is changing the lives of both residents and refugees.
One of the beautiful things about this bike ride is that we can connect places to places and people to people. In Whitstable, Kent, we spoke to Shernaz, an active organiser of support going from that part of the world to migrant camps in Calais and beyond. She told us that we must visit Kate McAllister while in Calais, who works on an educational project there. So two days of cycling later, that’s exactly what we did.
