How did Matthew and Edith raise funds and donations for the Jungle?

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Matthew and Edith raised funds and donations for the Calais Jungle through a school-led food drive and targeted links to aid organisations.

Matthew and Edith, both 16 and 17-year-old students from the western suburbs of Paris, organised a food fund drive through their international school to support the Jungle’s cafes and restaurants. They collected rice and lentils, along with financial donations from their school community, and they nearly doubled their initial target of 500 euros (RM2,288).
They ran a school community drive for food and money
Their project was organised through their international school and focused on collecting staples and cash for the Jungle’s food operations. They gathered rice and lentils, plus financial donations, and the total came close to doubling an initial goal of 500 euros (RM2,288).
They coordinated their project after advice that the camp was low on food
Matthew said he set up the fundraising project for the Jungle after returning to India and working with an NGO, and he tied the decision to guidance from the association L’Auberge des Migrants. That advice was specifically that the Jungle was low on food, which shaped the direction of the rice and lentils drive and the associated fundraising.
They used external networks to find the right organisation to contact
Edith explained that her first planned visit to the Jungle was arranged using Jasmin O’Hara’s website “The Worldwide Tribe.” The site provides links to organisations needing help in areas such as teaching, building, and cooking, and through those links she and Matthew got in touch with L’Auberge des Migrants, which has supported communities in the Jungle for the past two years.
Their fundraising plan was linked to earlier practical experience
Matthew connected his ability to organise the project to his experience in India, where he helped set up a mobile eye clinic and carried out eye tests on 450 children who needed glasses. He then said that experience gave him the courage to set up the rice and lentils and fundraising project for the Jungle in September.

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