It took a month, countless emails, tweets and a desperate Facebook post for Clare Moseley to get hold of and then deliver hand sanitizer for some of Europe’s most vulnerable people—more than 1,000 refugees living in tented camps with no running water in Calais, France.
It “felt like a really big victory,” Moseley said, when three companies finally said they would donate batches of the goods to her nonprofit, Care4Calais, which provides aid to refugees waiting to enter the UK from the French port city.
The problems go far beyond sanitizing, however. Other aid organizations have dramatically cut back their presence since the novel coronavirus took hold in Europe, meaning Care4Calais has had to stop giving out clothes, sleeping bags, and toiletries. It now mostly just provides much-needed food.
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