A north-east gin distillery, which has redirected effort towards making hand sanitiser during the coronavirus crisis, has stepped in to help refugees living in bleak conditions in northern France.
Aberdeen-based House Of Botanicals has donated 1,200 bottles Care4Calais, after support for refugee camps nearly completely collapsed because of the pandemic.
House of Botanicals founder Adam Elan-Elmergirab said: “We put out a call on our social media channels for organisations and charities to get in touch with us so we could potentially donate bottles of our hand sanitiser to them when they are ready for dispatch next week.
“This led to a call from Care4Calais who explained they were in desperate need of hand sanitiser for the 1,200 people living in camps in Calais that have been displaced from their homes due to war and oppression.
“We have agreed to ship fifty cases of our sanitiser, equalling 1200 units, to them this week so they can then distribute the bottles to those people in the camps.”
