Our Speakers 

Clare Moseley         

Clare Moseley set up Care4Calais after travelling to the Calais ‘Jungle’ in 2015 and being horrified at what she saw there. For the next two years she lived full time in Calais working to relieve the suffering of the many refugees trapped in limbo at the UK border.  

Care4Calais is a volunteer-run charity delivering essential aid and support to refugees living in the worst conditions across Northern France, Belgium and Italy.  Believing in a fair and tolerant British society and advocating for a welcoming and inclusive attitude towards refugees. 

Operating year round from Calais, our focus is to provide warm clothing, bedding, food and medical assistance to people in desperate need. C4C also provide social support and interaction, including language lessons and sports and music workshops.  They are on the ground with the refugees every single day and are respectful of their common humanity and responsive to their needs.

Br Johannes Maertens

Br Johannes Maertens is a missionary monk who founded the Maria Skobtsova House in Calais (France) during the time of the Calais refugee camp called "the Jungle” and worked for four years in Calais with refugees. Nowadays he is back at the London Catholic Worker working with some of the young refugees that came from Calais and lives in a community with homeless and destitute refugees.

Alex Holmes 

Alex Holmes lives in Angus on the east coast of Scotland where he works as a lettercarver in stone.

His engagement with refugees and asylum seekers was triggered when he spent 3 months in 2016 as a human rights monitor in Palestine with the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel. While there he the media coverage of the situation of refugees in the big Jungle Camp in Calais caught his attention, and on his return from the West Bank, curiosity led me to Calais.
While volunteering for a month with Care4Calais he discovered the Calais Catholic Worker House whilst trying to find safe sanctuary for a group of young Eritreans who had returned to Calais after the demolition of the jungle.  He has been returning to volunteer in the house ever since.

Book your place to join us on Tuesday 27th October at 7.45pm here 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conversation-on-migration-tickets-122206736639