LISTEN: Glasgow volunteer shares horrors of French refugee camps
One Glasgow man has been sharing his experiences after returning from visiting refugee camps in France.
One Glasgow man has been sharing his experiences after returning from visiting refugee camps in France.
Azzam Mohammad from the Ahl Al Bait Society Scotland led a group of 14 volunteers delivering aid such as sleeping bags, blankets, shoes, medicine and warm clothes collected by the donations the public from across Glasgow.
He's been speaking to our reporter Lizzie Parker:
The group spent two days at the camps in Calais and Dunkirk distributing aid and medical assistance.
They were joined by medical professionals, including two Doctors who provided medical care to refugees in France.
He believe Scots don't realise how terrible the conditions at the camp are.
He said: "There was one boy, about 10 years old, in Calais about two or three hundred men all at least in their 30s and 40s, who was lost.
"He was by himself with no family crying and asking to be away from here."
Many refugees told him they were targets of violence.
He said: "They told me a story that friends of them were walking in the street and some gangster and beat them up. They broke their legs.
"This kind of incident was happening every night, street to street."