In June of 2010, managed by our local community partners the Canaan Institute of Pedagogy, we built a play garden in Beit Lahiya, Northern Gaza. It serves an area where about 80% of the population is living below the poverty line.

Hope and Play purchased 188 educational laptops for children in the Boys and Girls schools in the Amari refugee camp just outside Ramallah on the West Bank. These were the first of a programme that is being implemented by UNRWA (the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency) using One Laptop Per Child XO laptops.

Hope and Play's 2009 London to Paris bike ride funded the construction of a Summer Games site in Gaza. The site, which was in place for two months, had over 800 children attending from some of the most battered border regions of Gaza, all there to participate in games and cultural activities as a respite from the brutal blockade and recent invasion to which they have been subjected.

Our laptops project is far more about education than it is about laptops. We are buying 'One Laptop Per Child' ruggedised, mechanically or solar powered educational laptops for Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza and in refugee camps in the Middle East as a tool to help them get a better education.