Alex Reid launches fundraising bid to buy blankets for 800 refugees in French camp
The cage fighter wants to raise £10,000 to help them survive the winter conditions
ALEX Reid has pleaded with his fans to dig deep to help him raise money to buy blankets for refugees over in France.
The cage fighter has got together with a group of friends to help the refugees and today he posted a video on his Twitter page urging people to donate what they can.
Speaking directly to camera, he said: “Me and a group of friends have decided to go over to a refugee camp in Dunkirk, France where there are over 800 hundred refugees living rough with no resources for the survival conditions they’re going to need.
“It’s winter. They’re not going to be used to the winter and many are dying due to the weather conditions and illness.
“We’re raising £10,000 to buy 3,000 blankets so they can survive. We’ve already managed to source the blankets at cost price at one of the biggest e store.
“Thanks to the, they’re shipping them straight to the camps and saving us thousands, but we still need your donations to help pay for the blankets themselves which we’re getting real cheap.
“Please show a bit of humanity and please share this video. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Anything you donate is going to save lives. Thank you very much.”
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Just before posting the video, Alex shared a video of Eighties cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and wrote: “I'm gonna be turning into HeMan in the next few weeks to be helping Syrian refugee children and families struggling to survive in Dunkirk.”
Earlier this month, Katie Price’s ex-husband said he would enrol back into the Territorial Army to protect children in war-torn Syria.
The 41-year-old – who was in the territorial army for four years – opened up in a heartfelt post on Instagram, telling his fans ‘it was breaking his heart’.
He wrote: “With all the atrocities committed in Syria, I don’t understand how all the poor little orphans can’t be homed here by wanting foster parents? What I’m seeing breaks me heart!
Continuing, he mused: “Cant’ the adoption process be speeded up?
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