Water.
Power.
Care. Daily.

Image 1 · 3:4Volunteer at water point or charging table, mid-taskConsent, rights and credit to confirm

The charging tables at the distribution site, Grande-Synthe.Enzo Leclercq or Chiara Toffoletto Usage rights

Roots gives displaced people in Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk, practical daily support with dignity: clean water, hot showers, phone charging, Wi-Fi and cleaner places to live.

Give monthly Volunteer with Roots

French registered association since 2017Year of registration versus founding
Entirely volunteer run
No government funding
Working in Grande-Synthe every day
Annual report published every year
Partnered with Refugee Community Kitchen, Care4Calais and No Borders Medics

What your support makes possible

Life on the move gets harder when the basics are unreliable. So we keep the basics running.

Explore what we do

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Water, sanitation and hygiene

Clean water and hot showers

We keep the water points clean and stocked, run hot showers four days a week and hand out hygiene supplies.

Showers four days a week, weather permitting

Current frequency, as of MONTH YEAR

About our water, sanitation and hygiene work

Image 3 · 16:9Charging tables, hands and phonesConsent, rights and credit to confirm

Digital inclusion

Power and Wi-Fi

A phone is a lifeline: family, legal advice, emergency numbers. We run 192 charging spaces and free Wi-Fi five days a week.

192 charging spaces, five days a week

To confirm

About digital inclusion

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Environmental care

Cleaner places to live

We provide bins, empty them daily, pick litter and run big clean-ups with partner groups.

Programme name proposed

Bins emptied every day

To confirm

About environmental care

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Food and nutrition

Hot meals with our partners

Alongside Refugee Community Kitchen and Bethlehem, we help serve between 600 and 900 hot portions in a day.

Programme name proposed

600 to 900 portions a day

Current figure and period

About food and nutrition

Get involved

Three ways to help

Give.Everything we do is paid for by people like you. A monthly gift lets us buy supplies before they run out and plan the next season.€27.64 pays for one day of hot showers and power.Figure and dateGive monthly Go.Volunteer with us on the ground in Grande-Synthe. No experience needed, a week is ideal, accommodation is available.Volunteer with Roots Raise.Run, bake, perform, quiz or collect. One supporter ran 44 miles across the Welsh mountains and raised more than £1,000.To confirmStart fundraising

Our impact

See how we count

5M+litres of clean water delivered since 2021, more than 5,000,000Updated MONTH YEARTo confirm
10,800hot showers in a single year (2022)Updated MONTH YEARReplace with the latest full-year figure
192charging spaces, five days a weekUpdated MONTH YEARTo confirm
5 tonnesof litter collected and recycledUpdated MONTH YEARPeriod
140+volunteers in one year (2022)Updated MONTH YEARReplace with the latest year

All figures are taken from our annual reports and dated. See how we count.

Coming here you will find the nicest group of humans. The things they do provide huge support to those on the move, seeking safety, and come from a place of genuine care.

Julia ZG, volunteer from the UK Permission and exact wording; photo if she agrees

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