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After several months living in limbo in the make-shift encampment near Calais known as "the Jungle" Iraqi refugee Bewar is taking a journey to the other side of France to start a new life.

Bewar is one of 2,400 people who have taken part in a voluntary program which relocates refugees and migrants from Calais to accommodation and orientation centres throughout France.

“I am good. I am better here than in the Jungle. I have been trying to go to England for one year,” he told us once we had reached Istres.

“I stay here because I can’t go home. I hope to live, to live good, to work. I don’t want to live a camp life. I don’t like camp life. I want a home. My only hope is not to live in a camp. I want to work. I don’t want to live from generosity of others. I don’t want charity. I want to work,”

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