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United Kingdom: Croydon, 14 children from “Calais jungle”. Churches in the forefront of homing

At the registration centre, the Christian communities of Croydon, southern England, have taken in the first 14 children who were sent from the “Calais jungle” to England last Monday. As reported by Seeking Sanctuary, an English Christian organisation born here to help the desperate people of Calais, there are 387 children in the French camp who have family in Great Britain and can cross the Channel, but there are over one thousand unaccompanied children who have no family in Great Britain and will, instead, “stay in the Calais jungle, unaccompanied, to fend for themselves”. After the first group of children, arrivals have stopped. The Anglican bishop of Croydon, Jonathan Clark, therefore reminded the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, to keep the “promise that more would arrive next. But how many? And when?”, he wrote. “The camp might start to be demolished at any time now”, the Catholic priest Dominic Howarth explains in a report about his visit to Calais a few days ago, even if “having to evacuate the children might perhaps hold it up for a few more weeks”. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, speaking to Prime Minister Theresa May at an event about the fight against slavery, had pointed out: “There are many situations in which children risk being ruthlessly exploited by dealers. It happens in all the refugee camps, and even near us, in Calais”.

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