By Steve Nolan PUBLISHED: 07:47 EST, 29 October 2013 | UPDATED: 11:41 EST, 29 October 2013 Living in ramshackle tents and racing daily to be first in line for free hot food, this is hardly a holiday camp. But for many of the hundreds of migrants living in makeshift campsites in northern France, the prospect of a better life in the UK rather than that of returning home to Iraq or Afghanistan makes it worth enduring the less-than-luxury conditions. While an army of volunteers from a charity set up to help them provides warm food and clothing at the moment, the 1,000 or so migrants who have set up camp in Calais and the surrounding towns are desperate to make it to Britain.
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Pictures show volunteers from SALAM helping migrants camping in towns across northern France
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The migrants are from a variety of countries including Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Somalia
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More than 300 volunteers work to serve daily hot food and provide migrants with warm clothing
Road to @placeholder: Graffiti purporting to direct migrants to the border is scrawled across a Calais road sign