[Music]
[Applause]
you need friends to survive Akbar looked
sir a best friend’s act buys twenty
years old and looked 16 the bell fled as
refugees from South Sudan in the FEU
area through the desert and into Libya
where they made in slave-like conditions
and it wasn’t these conditions they
quickly found out they had to help each
other to survive they needed to become
friends they both managed to get on a
boat sailing towards Italy the boat was
too small for the 300 people in it and
too old to actually make it all the way
and I’m The Walrus the waves got bigger
and bigger and more and more water came
into the boat and at some point people
started to panic and as they panicked
they get scared they were afraid of
dying on a sinking ship so one by one
they started to throw each other off off
into the water but you don’t fight
somebody who has the friends to protect
them and act by mook to protect with
each other they survived the journey
they reached the shores of Italy and
through Italy the trial by foot up all
the way into the Calais camp in northern
France still best friends still trying
to survive because they had something
bigger than themselves they had to
survive for each other and for the
community arriving to the Calais camp
you have to go under bridge and through
that bridge a view of tents would hit
you people walk by you some without
jackets some without proper shoes you
could walk freely into the camp because
there was no fences blocking the way
this was an unofficial refugee camp as
she walked in to the camp you’ll walk in
narrow roads and these roads were more
mud than actually wrote
and when it been raining the sand ground
would be filled with water and join
water poles would be everywhere and the
tents were people were living would be
flooded
there was actually so much water but no
clean water need in the toilets so
people had to in these fields and
the ship just come closer and closer and
closer to where people were living and
the rats rats did speak would sometimes
wake you up at night sitting next to you
this is the jungle necessities like food
and new clothes were mainly provided by
aid workers and volunteers and it wasn’t
these conditions that small communities
sprung up in the can there were 22
different nationalities springing from
the Middle East to Africa and even the
balcan countries the main nationalities
were its rayon Sudanese Afghan Kurdish
and Syrian refugees and all these
different nationalities lived in their
own small communities and it wasn’t
these this place in calais they built
their own mini city they even had shops
and when essay shops I mean for poles of
wood with some plastic wrapped around it
inside a gas stove where they can cook
outside a diesel generator pumping and
inside again you’ll hear some music from
the TV playing Bollywood movies or or
even Titanic and it wasn’t these shops
these bars and these cafes that boys
like at van Vactor would sit most nights
drinking their coffee or tea and they
were cold they were hungry but they had
one thing they had to hope for a better
future something I didn’t find in the
cali city itself
here found some of the biggest cases of
hopelessness have ever seen before
Kali was a city that held communist
beliefs it had a large industry and
people worked on the factories now most
of the factories was left to the east as
in most countries in Europe the largest
party is front Nationale and the city
has become one of the poorest ones in
France and people are stuck stuck with
no sense of a better future unlike the
people in the jungle who all knew they
were not staying in their mind this was
only temporary because they had hope for
something else
and that hope brought them exceptionally
all together to demonstrate for better
conditions for a better future in what
was at this time one of the worst
refugee camps in Europe half of the car
marched together and the next day
there was no news in the media about it
and nothing happened later on and for
some people they hoped they had turned
into despair and that is one of the
worst thing that can happen to you
because when you lose hope you start
slowly to die inside you start not
taking care of yourself and therefore
become a danger to yourself and everyone
around a few when society loses hope the
law of the jungle rules and it wasn’t
this jungle I met Akbar and Musa and
thousands of other refugees in the tough
conditions in the mud in the
as I decided to spend one year living
and working in the Calais jungle so what
the and we’re doing one of the
worst refugee camps in Europe in 2015
I was depressed I needed a purpose in my
life so I decided to give all my stuff
away leave my two jobs quit my education
say goodbye to the girl I dated at that
time pack a backpack and then travel by
fruit through Europe and the goal was to
have no goals however I wanted to see
one thing I wanted to see this refugee
camp I’ve heard about in Calais because
in my mind it was so abstract that there
could be such a large refugee camp in
northern Europe so when I arrived there
it didn’t take me long to realize I
needed to be there and I slept in the
Kangol alongside the refugees and that
gave me and some of the other ones hiest
opportunity to find out how many women
were in the camp how many children and
what was the actually needs of these
people and we quickly found out that the
women had no real safe space they needed
a place to feel comfortable and secure
they needed clothes that actually fits
them and sanitation so we built a
shelter for the women and children and
the women would take their children with
them and more and more children will
come and at some point did more and more
turn into a kindergarten and we would
play with these kids and we would paint
and we even had a cinema but these thing
began to attract teenage boys and if in
the camp more and more unaccompanied
teenage boys were living by themselves
and if there’s something that’s not a
good idea it’s to have women who need a
little break for men and small children
together but home and Roman teenage boys
and in at the beginning I sat in this
shelter by myself but eventually more
and more voice would come and more
volunteers as well and that meant that
we could actually start working with the
voice and we did two things we did
activities and a tracking system and we
began to find more boys in the camp but
the boys were quite hesitant to come
with you when you mentioned the shelter
and I was actually a quite good thing
because these boys needed to be in
survival mode and not go away with
strangers
some of these folks even had nice up
their sleeves so they were always on
guard the biggest breakthrough in
contacting these boys was when we
started a free times a week football
training at a proper football field and
hundreds of boys began to come to the
shelter until one day when we heard the
sound of and smoke surrounded us it was
the friends riot police shooting teargas
canisters into the football field where
we were playing and as they were
shooting this they shouted la jungle le
jungle go monkey go monkey and I tried
to talk to some of these friends
policemen and eventually one of them
cracked down and he said he didn’t
really want to be there but he had four
children he needed to provide for and
him and his family also needed to
survive this was of course a big letdown
for the boys and they had to go back to
the muddy tents this
the rats nights spend on jumping on
Lauri’s going to Britain and
fire-starting more frequently in the
camp itself these boys were not just
trying to survive they were in survival
mode and it was very important you
didn’t take that away for them because
otherwise they could break
and there was no room for weakness in
this situation however life Anand in the
jungle new things arrived toilets very
nice clean water stations and things
began to get better and then they
announced the demolition of the camp
itself and the boys reacted in quite
different ways some got quiet some got
aggressive however we never tried to
break them down we never tried to take
the survival mode away from them and go
into the traumas we always try to be
there for them they could act like the
lunatics one day and the next day
they’ll be met with a hook and this was
unconditional love a stability we could
there were so many frets in this
environment the threat of getting raped
the risk of getting involved with
smokeless smokeless wood for small
children to do errands for them so these
boys always had the defences up because
of the environment they were in
environment determined survival if you
guys grow up in a shitty place with pain
Deus is all around you you survive in a
quite different way than if we say you
grew up in a city like this one he and
then mark but there’s never only pure
survival in the camera sea refugees
saving their dignity by maintaining
their appearance or by action and one
day I had a woman coming up to me and
she was from Afghanistan and she was a
former university professor and she
lived with her four children alone in
and as we talked she cried not because
of the poor condition her children were
living in but because as he said ask you
it’s so hard always to ask for help it’s
so hard to have nothing to do so we
helped her sitting up a little school
where she could teach but this was such
a clever woman because by asking for
purpose she saved her dignity and she
saved her own self-worth and in the camp
I would see people sitting in the tents
embraced by hopelessness and despair
doing nothing
I saw people frozen by fear unable to
take that leap when their life was on
the line when you cannot take action you
cannot survive and what drives that
action is hope hope for a better future
ja I hope so strong a dream so strong
that you cannot sing away from you in
the camp it was nearly impossible to
persuade the refugees to go another way
because this dream had taken them so far
through so many dangers and the Hope had
different way Asian but it always came
down to one thing the hope for a better
future in the camp I’ll be waking up by
a little kid call Everest nine years old
and he wake me up because we had to give
out food for the families area spoke
four languages and he helped me with
many things for example translating when
we gave up food Aris dream was to go to
UK get to a safe place get education and
someday maybe become a professor that
could provide the world with new ideas
and new solutions we all want a brighter
future for yourself you me everybody
here in this room want a brighter future
for yourself
the different is that we are not
entirely sure what that dream is for the
refugees do because they want what we
have they want a place to live clean
water peace they want the opportunity to
make something out of themselves because
what they come from is the place without
hope and if there’s something I’ve
learned in the jungle it is then when
society loses hope the law of the jungle
rules you all have to survive survival
so what is your hope thank you
[Applause] [Music]
[Applause]
you need friends to survive Akbar looked
sir a best friend’s act buys twenty
years old and looked 16 the bell fled as
refugees from South Sudan in the FEU
area through the desert and into Libya
where they made in slave-like conditions
and it wasn’t these conditions they
quickly found out they had to help each
other to survive they needed to become
friends they both managed to get on a
boat sailing towards Italy the boat was
too small for the 300 people in it and
too old to actually make it all the way
and I’m The Walrus the waves got bigger
and bigger and more and more water came
into the boat and at some point people
started to panic and as they panicked
they get scared they were afraid of
dying on a sinking ship so one by one
they started to throw each other off off
into the water but you don’t fight
somebody who has the friends to protect
them and act by mook to protect with
each other they survived the journey
they reached the shores of Italy and
through Italy the trial by foot up all
the way into the Calais camp in northern
France still best friends still trying
to survive because they had something
bigger than themselves they had to
survive for each other and for the
community arriving to the Calais camp
you have to go under bridge and through
that bridge a view of tents would hit
you people walk by you some without
jackets some without proper shoes you
could walk freely into the camp because
there was no fences blocking the way
this was an unofficial refugee camp as
she walked in to the camp you’ll walk in
narrow roads and these roads were more
mud than actually wrote
and when it been raining the sand ground
would be filled with water and join
water poles would be everywhere and the
tents were people were living would be
flooded
there was actually so much water but no
clean water need in the toilets so
people had to in these fields and
the ship just come closer and closer and
closer to where people were living and
the rats rats did speak would sometimes
wake you up at night sitting next to you
this is the jungle necessities like food
and new clothes were mainly provided by
aid workers and volunteers and it wasn’t
these conditions that small communities
sprung up in the can there were 22
different nationalities springing from
the Middle East to Africa and even the
balcan countries the main nationalities
were its rayon Sudanese Afghan Kurdish
and Syrian refugees and all these
different nationalities lived in their
own small communities and it wasn’t
these this place in calais they built
their own mini city they even had shops
and when essay shops I mean for poles of
wood with some plastic wrapped around it
inside a gas stove where they can cook
outside a diesel generator pumping and
inside again you’ll hear some music from
the TV playing Bollywood movies or or
even Titanic and it wasn’t these shops
these bars and these cafes that boys
like at van Vactor would sit most nights
drinking their coffee or tea and they
were cold they were hungry but they had
one thing they had to hope for a better
future something I didn’t find in the
cali city itself
here found some of the biggest cases of
hopelessness have ever seen before
Kali was a city that held communist
beliefs it had a large industry and
people worked on the factories now most
of the factories was left to the east as
in most countries in Europe the largest
party is front Nationale and the city
has become one of the poorest ones in
France and people are stuck stuck with
no sense of a better future unlike the
people in the jungle who all knew they
were not staying in their mind this was
only temporary because they had hope for
something else
and that hope brought them exceptionally
all together to demonstrate for better
conditions for a better future in what
was at this time one of the worst
refugee camps in Europe half of the car
marched together and the next day
there was no news in the media about it
and nothing happened later on and for
some people they hoped they had turned
into despair and that is one of the
worst thing that can happen to you
because when you lose hope you start
slowly to die inside you start not
taking care of yourself and therefore
become a danger to yourself and everyone
around a few when society loses hope the
law of the jungle rules and it wasn’t
this jungle I met Akbar and Musa and
thousands of other refugees in the tough
conditions in the mud in the
as I decided to spend one year living
and working in the Calais jungle so what
the and we’re doing one of the
worst refugee camps in Europe in 2015
I was depressed I needed a purpose in my
life so I decided to give all my stuff
away leave my two jobs quit my education
say goodbye to the girl I dated at that
time pack a backpack and then travel by
fruit through Europe and the goal was to
have no goals however I wanted to see
one thing I wanted to see this refugee
camp I’ve heard about in Calais because
in my mind it was so abstract that there
could be such a large refugee camp in
northern Europe so when I arrived there
it didn’t take me long to realize I
needed to be there and I slept in the
Kangol alongside the refugees and that
gave me and some of the other ones hiest
opportunity to find out how many women
were in the camp how many children and
what was the actually needs of these
people and we quickly found out that the
women had no real safe space they needed
a place to feel comfortable and secure
they needed clothes that actually fits
them and sanitation so we built a
shelter for the women and children and
the women would take their children with
them and more and more children will
come and at some point did more and more
turn into a kindergarten and we would
play with these kids and we would paint
and we even had a cinema but these thing
began to attract teenage boys and if in
the camp more and more unaccompanied
teenage boys were living by themselves
and if there’s something that’s not a
good idea it’s to have women who need a
little break for men and small children
together but home and Roman teenage boys
and in at the beginning I sat in this
shelter by myself but eventually more
and more voice would come and more
volunteers as well and that meant that
we could actually start working with the
voice and we did two things we did
activities and a tracking system and we
began to find more boys in the camp but
the boys were quite hesitant to come
with you when you mentioned the shelter
and I was actually a quite good thing
because these boys needed to be in
survival mode and not go away with
strangers
some of these folks even had nice up
their sleeves so they were always on
guard the biggest breakthrough in
contacting these boys was when we
started a free times a week football
training at a proper football field and
hundreds of boys began to come to the
shelter until one day when we heard the
sound of and smoke surrounded us it was
the friends riot police shooting teargas
canisters into the football field where
we were playing and as they were
shooting this they shouted la jungle le
jungle go monkey go monkey and I tried
to talk to some of these friends
policemen and eventually one of them
cracked down and he said he didn’t
really want to be there but he had four
children he needed to provide for and
him and his family also needed to
survive this was of course a big letdown
for the boys and they had to go back to
the muddy tents this
the rats nights spend on jumping on
Lauri’s going to Britain and
fire-starting more frequently in the
camp itself these boys were not just
trying to survive they were in survival
mode and it was very important you
didn’t take that away for them because
otherwise they could break
and there was no room for weakness in
this situation however life Anand in the
jungle new things arrived toilets very
nice clean water stations and things
began to get better and then they
announced the demolition of the camp
itself and the boys reacted in quite
different ways some got quiet some got
aggressive however we never tried to
break them down we never tried to take
the survival mode away from them and go
into the traumas we always try to be
there for them they could act like the
lunatics one day and the next day
they’ll be met with a hook and this was
unconditional love a stability we could
there were so many frets in this
environment the threat of getting raped
the risk of getting involved with
smokeless smokeless wood for small
children to do errands for them so these
boys always had the defences up because
of the environment they were in
environment determined survival if you
guys grow up in a shitty place with pain
Deus is all around you you survive in a
quite different way than if we say you
grew up in a city like this one he and
then mark but there’s never only pure
survival in the camera sea refugees
saving their dignity by maintaining
their appearance or by action and one
day I had a woman coming up to me and
she was from Afghanistan and she was a
former university professor and she
lived with her four children alone in
and as we talked she cried not because
of the poor condition her children were
living in but because as he said ask you
it’s so hard always to ask for help it’s
so hard to have nothing to do so we
helped her sitting up a little school
where she could teach but this was such
a clever woman because by asking for
purpose she saved her dignity and she
saved her own self-worth and in the camp
I would see people sitting in the tents
embraced by hopelessness and despair
doing nothing
I saw people frozen by fear unable to
take that leap when their life was on
the line when you cannot take action you
cannot survive and what drives that
action is hope hope for a better future
ja I hope so strong a dream so strong
that you cannot sing away from you in
the camp it was nearly impossible to
persuade the refugees to go another way
because this dream had taken them so far
through so many dangers and the Hope had
different way Asian but it always came
down to one thing the hope for a better
future in the camp I’ll be waking up by
a little kid call Everest nine years old
and he wake me up because we had to give
out food for the families area spoke
four languages and he helped me with
many things for example translating when
we gave up food Aris dream was to go to
UK get to a safe place get education and
someday maybe become a professor that
could provide the world with new ideas
and new solutions we all want a brighter
future for yourself you me everybody
here in this room want a brighter future
for yourself
the different is that we are not
entirely sure what that dream is for the
refugees do because they want what we
have they want a place to live clean
water peace they want the opportunity to
make something out of themselves because
what they come from is the place without
hope and if there’s something I’ve
learned in the jungle it is then when
society loses hope the law of the jungle
rules you all have to survive survival
so what is your hope thank you
[Applause] [Music]
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