Twelve-year-old Calais refugee: ‘I want to go to England’

“Inside one of the aid tents set up inside the migrant camp known as the ‘jungle’ 12 year old Sultana Adam helps her mother to hand out bags of food for the estimated 3000 residents. Sultana fled her home in Jalalabad four months ago and walked for a month to make it to Calais and the chance to smuggle herself into Britain.

“It was dangerous when we crossed from Iran to Turkey and then into Greece,” explains Sultana. Whilst at the camp she is studying English and she has an uncle and cousins in England who she wishes to join to continue her education.

Like the other residents of the camp, Sultana’s future is under threat from the French government who have announced plans to evict them and bulldoze the section of the camp where she lives.” [Read More at The Telegraph UK]