'If I die, that is OK': the Calais refugees with nowhere to turn
by Harriet Grant in Calais from World news | The Guardian on (#56QFC)
Why asylum seekers are resorting to desperate measures to reach the better, fairer' UK
Sami was on a beach near Calais, crying, when Claire Moseley found him. The charity worker got a text asking for help and went to collect him in the early hours of the morning.
He and three friends, one of them only 17, had pooled their money to buy a three-seater kayak from the sports retailer Decathlon to try to make the arduous 20-mile journey to Britain, as 4,000 others have successfully done this year.
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