Sean Cooney 2016?
Just before Christmas 2015, the Middlesbrough garage group owner spent thousands of pounds of his own money buying and kitting out a single decker bus as a travelling industrial kitchen, venturing across Europe where he and his team were able to feed thousands of refugees a day. The Dunkirk (“Barosch”) refugee camp in France was designed for under 100 people was overcrowded with over 2500 mostly Iraqi Kurds in winter 2015. Occupants were relocated to a nearby site better-designed for the higher number of people in early 2016.
Young’uns: Ghafoor’s Bus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh3QTZwXtPA
Well the mist was lifting from Roseberry Topping, and the moors were cold and green And the driver swore there’d be no stoppin as he made for the A19 And in the borough, lads and lasses were sleeping safe and still When Ghafoor Hussain hit the road, with a million mouths to fill Chorus: It’s beans and rice, and rice and beans And a hand when you fall For there’s a friendly face, a better place And a future for us all He couldn’t bear the lads and lasses’ faces on the tv screens As they drowned and froze in hateful places with nothing but their dreams So he bought a bus, and he filled it up with beans and rice and tea And on a winter’s morn he he headed south and crossed over the sea Now in Dunkirk we remember yet the soldiers on the sand 800 ships we’ll not forget, that came to lend a hand But here comes one more vessel now, across the angry sea To serve 3,000 meals a day, and 10,000 cups of tea Now some have stared into his face and wondered if he’s mad But he knows he’d be in their place, if it weren’t for the chance he had And the lads and lasses’ hopeful faces are what drives him on So here’s to Ghafoor and his Bus, and a better world to come