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  • 01/03/2024
'You're dealing with hundreds of human beings that are just looking for a future.'

Meet Calvin Lucock, the former hotelier who took migrants into his own home on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria.

The Canary Islands are at the centre of Europe’s migration crisis with a seven-fold increase in arrivals this year.

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00:00 You're dealing with hundreds of human beings that are just looking for a future.
00:08 I used the word boys but it was men, women, children, babies of all ages.
00:14 We have spent in the hotel from September until March, April with the Red Cross.
00:22 But then that agreement came to an end.
00:25 We still had some people staying with us in the hotel and that's when we just took care of them privately
00:32 and then moved them out of the hotel into our own houses.
00:37 The only requisite that we had with any of the people that stayed with us was that they followed correctly
00:46 and legally the asylum processes.
00:50 I find it very difficult to believe the risks that they take in trying to get here.
00:56 Not just here but on any crossing or any journey they make.
01:00 Obviously to do that there's desperation behind it.
01:05 You're dealing with hundreds of human beings that are just looking for a future.
01:12 The biggest help we were able to give was probably during their journey just a platform where they felt safe, they felt secure.
01:22 [Music]

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