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. […]
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 […]
16th – 19th October 2018 The team: Rose, Louisa, Amanda: Hands up Foundation director, founder and trustee Lucy: film maker Ruth: Syrian Supper club chef Our aims: find out about […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
It takes violence of unprecedented levels for Syria to be newsworthy at the moment. Perhaps understandable for a conflict entering its seventh year, longer than WWII. But that cannot be […]
On the 7th January 2018 the Primary Health Clinic supported by Hands Up, and managed on the ground by SAMS, was hit during an airstrike and severely damaged. No one […]
The final reading of the service was given by Colin Thubron, the acclaimed travel writer. It is a letter written by Freya Stark, one of the first Westerners to ever […]
The fourth reading of the service absolutely brought the house down. Martin Jarvis, narrator of the audiobooks, stood up and read this extract from Richmal Crompton’s fabulous Just William series about an […]
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