100% of proceeds from these artworks go to the Calais Food Collective, to help them continue their vital work feeding refugees and displaced people this winter. This limited edition series of riso-printed posters are created by designers responding to the themes of food and migration.
The Calais Food Collective are a small grassroots emergency response team on the ground, providing daily food and water security in the form of dry food, emergency food packs and hot meal distribution. They support around 2,000 people and only expect this number to increase given the current political situation.
Over the past few weeks, a huge media spotlight has been thrown onto people crossing the Channel in small boats to find safety in the United Kingdom. There has been almost no attention paid to the dire conditions people are forced to live in while in France. Since the intervention of the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel in July, police brutality and outright state neglect in Calais has reached unprecedented levels. This has created significant food and water shortages for displaced people who have been evicted from camps with nowhere else to go.
Since the Covid crisis put a sudden stop to food access in April, The CFC have provided and distributed enough food for over 170,000 meals supporting close to 2,000 people through daily distribution. The current populations in Calais and Dunkirk constantly change, so we regularly adapt our service to respond to the volatile nature of the context they work in.
The CFC main fundraising page can be found at: JustGiving and website at Calais Food Collective