Volunteers from the Liberal and Reform youth movements spent a week in Calais and Dunkirk as part of a team cooking and serving 2,000 meals daily to refugees.

They joined the Refugee Community Kitchen, which has supplied more than three million meals in Northern Europe over the past three years.

The volunteers spent their days chopping, cooking and cleaning, as well as distributing the meals.

LJY-Netzer participant Oz Moller said it was “heartening to see the hope and happiness of the refugees, despite the poor situation they were in. In addition, the effect of the work we were doing in the kitchen helped me to understand the importance of an organisation like RCK, which operates entirely through its volunteers.

“My time in France cemented my desire to continue to help others whenever I have the opportunity.

“Doing it as part of a joint LJY-RSY venture was great and volunteering with other young Progressive Jews was an enjoyable experience. We all were able to get along easily.”