On Sunday, 21st March at 8.20am local time, three artillery strikes targeted the SAMS-supported Al-Atareb Surgical Hospital in western Aleppo, a major hospital in northwest Syria that had been providing […]
Against the dramatic backdrop of a derelict Victorian theatre, Sacconi Quartet perform a moving rendition of Jonathan Dove’s ‘Out of Time’. The Sacconi Quartet are generously giving all profit made on […]
The reproductive health clinic at the medical centre in Tel Abyad, north Syria, run by SAMS, is one of the busiest at the facility. Services like these are crucial. Maryam […]
In a new series of blogs across the year we’re conducting, Hands Up have decided to question our Trustees to share and get to know them better. In this second […]
Mitt Wearables create comfortable, easy-to-fit, user-friendly prosthetic limbs. This article was written by Nicholas Mellor, Mitt Wearables Chairman, and was originally posted here. __ Three years ago, Rose Lukas of the Hands […]
Storytelling is one of Syria’s greatest traditions and Al Hakawati holds a special place in Syrian culture. As a nod to this, Hands Up is presenting a series of stories […]
In a new series of blogs across the year we’re conducting, Hands Up have decided to question our Trustees to share and get to know them better. In this first […]
Hands Up’s regular blogger, Melie Pemberton, a teacher currently living in Beirut, has sent us her next update. Melie explains about the deep entrenchment of Syrians and their food, as […]
Hands Up’s new regular blogger, Melie Pemberton, a teacher currently living in Beirut, has sent us an update on her life out there. This time we learn about charades with […]
On Monday morning at 9am, the Primary Health Clinic supported by Hands Up, and managed on the ground in Syria by SAMS, was hit by an airstrike. Thankfully, the staff […]
Lament for Syria is a poem written by Amineh Abou Kerech, winner of the 2017 Betjamin poetry prize for 10-13 year olds. She moved to the UK last summer, and composed […]
This beautiful poem by the great Lord Tennyson was read by the Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox. It was originally written to mourn the untimely death of just one man, but […]
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