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[00:00.16]From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report.
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[00:20.40]Those sounds you hear are from the Chemins des Dunes School in France.
[00:27.08]The school serves a camp for migrants near the port of Calais.
[00:33.00]The students sit on chairs in a tent or outside in the sunshine.
[00:38.88]They do not pay to attend the school.
[00:41.85]Their teachers and the head of the school are all volunteers.
[00:47.50]At a French language class,
[00:50.12]the students are learning terms for the weather, like rain and wind.
[00:55.48]Many of the migrants are from Sudan and Eritrea.
[00:59.88]They will soon see snow for the first time.
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[01:09.84]They are here to study art, Tai Chi and especially, French and English.
[01:15.68]Knowing one of those languages can help migrants in their efforts
[01:21.88]to live legally in France or in Britain, just across the English Channel.
[01:29.52]Nigerian migrant Zimako Jones started the school.
[01:35.24]He says it is bringing together members of the city's different migrant communities.
[01:41.64]"Maybe you saw the Kosovar.
[01:44.20]He comes to school to sit down with blacks from Sudan,
[01:48.84]sometimes Afghan, two, three Afghan.
[01:51.40]For me, it's (a) pleasure for me to see them live together, unite together."
[01:59.08]The school opened two months ago in this Calais migrant camp that people have started calling "The Jungle."
[02:08.92]Today, classes are full and more people want to sign up.
[02:14.32]Some classes are held outside of the tent, where the school began.
[02:19.20]The school has a growing number of teachers.
[02:22.96]They work as volunteers without pay.
[02:26.84]One is speech therapist Virginie Tiberghien, who lives in the area.
[02:35.36]Some local residents have protested against the migrants.
[02:40.64]But others, like her, want to help the new arrivals.
[02:46.32]"I often see people on the road so I wanted to meet them,
[02:55.40]to know the way they were living here.
[02:58.20]The school is a way to restore humanity.
[03:02.36]And so it's a good thing."
[03:05.40]Volunteers are also coming from Britain.
[03:09.16]Science teacher Niamh McMahon is from Kent.
[03:13.88]She heard about the school on Facebook.
[03:17.16]She crossed the English Channel  with food, clothing
[03:22.60]and school supplies for the many migrants.
[03:27.16]"I just felt really emotional about what's going on here, how these people are being treated.
[03:33.72]They're desperate, they're running away from war and torture and suffering.
[03:39.08]And in a lot of cases, caused by Western policies.
[03:41.96]So I wanted to do what I could."
[03:44.92]Zimako Jones wants to launch another school program just for women and children.
[03:51.72]He says the school shows that migrants can create something good in "The Jungle" of Calais.
[04:00.48]He hopes that Europe and its migrants can build a future together.
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[04:16.88]And that's the Education Report.
[04:19.44]I'm Jill Robbins.
[04:21.64]Now it's your turn.
[04:23.56]What are individual people doing to help migrants or refugees where you live?
[04:29.68]Write to us in the comments section.