“I heard cries from the other side of the road then I saw many people rushing to the median strip between the lanes,” says, the American Photojournalist Shannon Jensen.
Shannon Jensen is documenting the life of the people of who live in the “The Jungle”. It is a crowded makeshift tent camp, housing thousands of refugees, close to the French entrance of the Eurotunnel near the port of Calais, France. It is a place for a desperate people who are deprived of any hope. France will not look at their asylum claims and Britain is fortifying it is door to keep them out.
Nawal is 26 years old. She is from Da’ara, Syria. She was trying to jump in the back of a lorry heading to the tunnel, when she felt to the asphalt and a taxi stuck her body near the feet of her child. …show more content…
The refugees shouted at the passing cars for help. None stopped, none cared. The photographer, Shannon had to call for an Ambulance.
Osama -Nawal’s brother- hugged little Mohamed, kissed him as the ambulance carried his mother lifeless body away. Mohamed asked, “Where are they taking my mom?” Osama lied to him, he told him, “They are taking her to London.”
Now, Mohamed is in his way back to a refugee camp between Jordan and Syria, where his father still lives. Mohamed will be waiting for his mother to send him an invitation to London. Since June, 2015, twenty people have died attempting to cross the Eurotunnel. A seems forgotten among the regular refugee and migrant drama in the