News: Awareness

Introducing Melie Pemberton, our new Beirut Blogger

Hands Up is thrilled to introduce our new regular blogger, Melie Pemberton. Melie is a teacher currently living in Beirut, and will be keeping us posted on all things Syria […]

8 Years Gone: “As we reach the eight-year mark of this bitter conflict, I am asking you to raise your hand to do something positive to help.”

Eight years ago, I was living in Damascus. Before arriving in 2010, I had only visited the Middle East once and had little knowledge of Syria’s people, pace and politics. […]

Eid al Adha – a time for compassion – and never has Syria needed it more

Eid Al-Adha is a celebration that brings happiness and joy to many communities across the Muslim world. It is also known as the Feast of the Sacrifice or the Greater […]

Seeing the Syrian border first hand

In early May, three of us went to the Turkish border with Syria, to meet with some of the people who run our projects on the ground. At the moment, […]

Seven years into Syria’s conflict; there is still so much that can and must be done

15th March 2018 Today marks the seventh year of the conflict in Syria. I remember March 2011 in Damascus. The sun was beginning to shine with more warmth and the […]

Rebuilding Syria’s Healthcare

A great piece of analysis from Abdulkarim Ekzayez, a Syrian medical doctor, discussing whether the Idlib Health Directorate can lead the way in terms of reestablishing northwestern Syria’s devastated healthcare […]

What Your Support Means…to our friends in Syria

At Hands Up, we spend a huge amount of time making sure we know exactly where the money we raise goes in Syria, which means we’re extremely selective about the […]

A fabulous community sponsorship programme taking shape for Syrian refugees

This is a prime example of people bothering to get up and do something and we are very impressed. Click to watch their brilliant work and how you can get […]

In May we spent a few days on the Syrian Turkish border meeting partners and visiting projects…

Sitting in an office in London (or anywhere in the UK) it is hard to picture what life might be like on the Syrian/Turkish border, so close to a brutal […]

While in Gaziantep in May, we had the opportunity to speak with one of the doctors we fund at a primary health clinic in southern rural Aleppo, this is what he had to say…

Gaziantep, 10th May 2017, 12:55pm While meeting with staff from SAMS office in Gaziantep, we had the opportunity to speak to Dr. Khaled, the manager at the Clinic we fund […]

The Flower Seller of Aleppo – a rare snapshot of life inside Aleppo

L’Institut Francais are holding a screening of ‘Farouk, besieged like me’ by Mouhassaron Mithli

Check l’Institut Francais’ website for tickets… In this deeply personal documentary, veteran Syrian documentarian Hala Alabdalla invites us to dinner with writer and editor Farouk Mardam-Bey, for a thought-provoking reflection […]