Tag archives for Education
Children’s Library in Ain El Hilweh Refugee Camp
Hope and Play hadn't facilitated any projects for Palestinian children in Lebanon. Not until we were contacted by Farah, who was herself a child of one of the poorest refugee…
Emergency Fundraising for Traumatised Children in Gaza
You cannot but have seen the harrowing images of what Gaza's population is suffering right now. As always, the brunt of the impact is on the children. With over 60%…
220m Headlong Dive Raises over £3,000 for Traumatised Kids
How far would you go to help traumatised children in Gaza get a start in education? Well, Saskia, one of our trustees, decided she could only go 220 metres. Not…
Education for 500 Traumatised Children in Gaza
When I visited Gaza in 2012, there were a number of Israeli warplane bombing sorties which killed about a dozen people in the strip. The first one I witnessed was…
El Amal Project for Children with Hearing and Speech Difficulties
This one's for our fun fundraisers who cycled London to Amsterdam with Hope and Play back in 2010, to Wissam Al-Jayoussi and his Goodwill Journey motorbike ride from Dubai to…
Beit Lahiya Community Centre in Northern Gaza Gets a Children’s Library
Back in 2010, we sent funds to the Palestinian Cultural and Heritage Association (PCHA) in Beit Lahiya to furbish a children's library within their community centre to provide a much…
Samouni School Project Starts – Against the Odds
Time plays tricks on you sometimes. No sooner had I posted my last blog post about the clothing that many of you had helped fund for the Samouni family, than…
Projects for Education for Children with Disabilities in Gaza
Through a number of fundraising events, Hope and Play raised funds for use on furthering the education of disabled children in Gaza. During Iyas's visit to Gaza in 2012, we…
188 Laptops for Al Amari Refugee Camp schools
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…
Palestine Laptops Project
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…