LONDON -- Every year hundreds of pairs of wellies are discarded at Glastonbury by their music festival-going wearers after they've slogged around the Somerset site, feet dry and mud-free. But this year, the boots have been given a second life.
Organisers of the festival made the announcement on Friday in a statement on their website, saying several hundred pairs of the boots ended up in the festival's recycling centre after the July event.
Glastonbury volunteers meticulously sorted and sized the boots, and they donated them, along with 2,000 unused rain ponchos and first aid kits.
"The migrants in Calais are living in desperate conditions, and we’re very pleased to be able to help support their basic humanitarian needs," Glastonbury said.
They also donated bin bags to help with a new effort to tackle the issues with rubbish collection at the migrant camp.
It's estimated that some 5,000 people live in tents and huts in the camps that make up the Jungle near the Port of Calais, which connects northern France to the south of England. They are displaced from a number of countries including Syria, Libya, Sudan, Eritrea and Afghanistan.