Checkpoint | Spring 2017

uncomplaining.

I saw the need and I just had to help. I joined the group with Shelley and 5 others with the aim to take caravans to families and unaccompanied children in the Jungle. We called ourselves “Jungle Canopy” as we were providing shelter to refugees. For the next year until the jungle was cleared in October 2016 I went to Calais each week with a caravan and aid as did many others, we took about 200 caravans to provide a safe haven for Refugees. The caravans were sponsored and prepared by churches, schools and community groups.

I met many amazing refugees from Eritrea, Sudan, Syrian, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan most spoke English many had nightmare stories to tell, like the 14yr old Afghan girl who watched her 2 brothers and her sister drown in the crossing to Greece as they spent 9hrs in the sea. This was a humbling and amazing opportunity for me to show the love of God, I will never be the same. Tony Britten retired from Essex Police after 30yrs service in 2005. He was a former Branch Leader of the Essex CPA, a Police Chaplain, on the board of the International Christian Police Fellowship and an Elder at Braintree Elim Church.

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