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Calais migrant camp's newly opened library needs books!

re-tweetster | 31.08.2015 19:12 | Migration


Verso London is sending books to Jungle Books (or Livres de la jungle in French), the makeshift library at the Calais migrant camp known as the Jungle. Mary Jones, who set up the library, wants to add more books in the native languages of the migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, and hopes that eventually, the camp inhabitants will run the library. Besides stocking around 200 books, the Guardian reports, “the library supports a school that offers classes to the refugees and asylum seekers that live in the camp.”


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 http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2206-jungle-books-calais-migrant-camp-s-newly-opened-library-needs-books

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  1. Glad to help — Bibliophile