It's difficult to believe a staunch sense of community exists in the same chaotic region where aid workers claim 12-year-old boys are being raped.

The Calais Jungle camp has evolved since 2002, from small camps skirting the landfill site in its earlier years to the filthy, archaic settlement that stands today - a hapless shelter 6000 people are clinging to after French authorities destroyed a large portion of the camp last week.

Iranian hunger strikers are in protest a short distance away from a market 'street' where food is sold to journalists. Police use tear gas against refugees in the south, where a dwindling number of their children attend a wooden school.

An STV News investigation accompanied two Scots doctors, Ewan Dalby and Geraldine Houston, to the Jungle where they hoped to administer medical aid to those in need.

Here is what they discovered.

Brish, a Sudan refugee, ate a Tunnock's caramel wafer as he waited on medical aid in the north of the Jungle, following exposure to tear gas.

Now a Liverpool fan, he sought treatment from Geraldine Houston after experiencing coughing and pain in his chest - symptoms the Paisley GP expected having read about police using the chemical weapons against refugees.

Brish left his native country after his mother was killed and his sister was kidnapped, entering Libya where he faced torture - his story is similar to many of those on the ground at Calais.

Violence, destruction of tents, overcrowding and poor sanitation are becoming increasing sources of tension in the Jungle, after an estimated 1000 people were moved north from the southern sector.

Many have travelled from other camps such as the Grande-Synthe at Dunkirk, where just months ago, sanitary conditions were reported to be "far worse" than the Jungle.

A select few of those living in Dunkirk have now been given accommodation in a new £2.5m shed village, largely funded by MSF, where shelters have been erected from plywood and plastic.

Dr Houston told STV that working with children in the Jungle camp affected her profoundly, she was most struck by the lack of any real change.

She said: "It's very from what I was expecting, there's such a sense of community which we hadn't got an idea of from what we've seen on the TV.

"You hear the south part of the camp has been bulldozed. What you're not hearing is that people's actual houses, shops, community, libraries, where they're bringing up their children, their actual village was raised to the ground.

"Whatever has been bulldozed has been moved, and people have started building all over again.

"There are plenty of people willing to help, but what nobody is doing is thinking where are these people going to go?

"There are people willing to work on a day to day basis, but not to find any real solution."

Following the upheaval of those living in the south, the landscape of the Jungle has changed somewhat.

National camps have formed, where Afghani, Syrian and Sudanese people gather in separate areas - men dominate the organisation of trade in the central market while women and children sleep in shipping containers at the far north.

Facets of every day life evaded destruction in the south - there is still a school, a church and a medical tent, as well as many volunteers attempting to raise morale.

Tahir Khan, who travelled to Calais from Pakistan, hopes to cross the Channel to enter the UK.

He admits that "it's not a good life" in the Jungle, but has ventured to help others by selling food in the camp's market street. Tahir works and sleeps in the restaurant, which is often packed with a "community" of people eating, talking and playing cards.

After discussing his interest in Scotland's Independence Referendum with STV News, he said: "Most of the people living in the Jungle are Muslim and everything we cook is Halal and vegetarian.

"I love to help people, I hope this gives me the power to help."

In the heart of western Europe, options are admittedly limited for refugees at Calais.

Many hope to arrive in the UK to set up a livelihood for their families, often as there is no option to return to their home countries where further persecution awaits.

An increasing number of volunteers arrive at the site daily offering to make life in the camp more bearable, including charities like Care4Calais and CalAid.

Those who are making their living in the Jungle have attempted to bring about some sense of normalcy - some await news of involvement from the European Court of Human Rights, others just wait.