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World Service,4 mins

A school for migrants

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The 'Chemin des Dunes' is not your average school. Nestled in the middle of a migrant camp in Calais and staffed by local volunteers, it's the result of a partnership between a French speech therapist - Virginie Tiberghien - and a Nigerian migrant - Zimarco Jones. One of the reasons it was started was to give migrants who decided to stay in France a helping hand with the language. But, as our reporter Tomos Morgan discovered, the timetable was slightly more unusual than anticipated. Image: Speech therapist Virginie Tiberghien gives a French class to migrants on August 11, 2015, in a makeshift school built in the 'New Jungle' migrant camp in Calais. Credit: Francois Lo Presti/AFP/Getty Images

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