Rachel Rounds, from the Bible Society told Premier it was a mixed experience and that people want to leave the camp: "It's just that kind of lack of hope and that just feeling, a lot of them were saying, the jungle is for animals, we're not animals.
"And there was signs everywhere that said 'France is dog life, England is human life.'"
Talking to Premier about distributing Bibles she said: "It was just utterly amazing to see people's faces just filled with such joy, and just to see them picking up the Bible and reading it in their own heart language was just lovely - and a couple of guys we spoke to said 'oh, I want to tell you about my favourite verse' and they were able to read out their favourite verse."
Around 300 Bibles were handed out in both Arabic and Amharic, the Ethiopian language.
It is estimated around 4,000 people, including children, live in an area of Calais known as The Jungle.
Rachel Rounds also highlighted some of the problems inside of the camp such as a lack of sanitation and violence, she said: "When it comes to life inside the camp, it's total anarchy.
"One gentlemen we spoke to - his neighbour had been stabbed in the chest eight times one night.
"The women we spoke to said they live in constant fear of sexual violence and rape."
She added that during her visit she had seen a demonstration: "As we were leaving the camp the sort of tail end of the demonstration was a group of approximately 50 women, they were all holding placards - well, I say placards, they were pieces of A4 paper, the lady that was organising it had printed off things that said 'I am a doctor', 'I am a scientist', 'I am a teacher', 'I am a nurse'.
"And so it was these women telling their story of who they were essentially and the lives they'd lived before they came to Calais."
She stressed that the Church and other faith charities had a visible input: "There are a lot of faith-based charities, so there are quite a lot of Muslim charities there when we were there... and quite a few Christian charities also.
"I certainly get the impression lots of Christians in this country have really helped and tried to do as we're told to do in the New Testament, to be that good Samaritan and to help their neighbour."
She concluded by saying that what these people needed most of all is hope.
Listen to the full interview with Premier's Hannah Tooley and Rachel Rounds, from the Bible Society here:
