Tag archives for Gaza - Page 3
Dispatch: Hope in Gaza
Journalists to cover Hope and Play Projects in Gaza Two journalists with a track record of publication in major media outlets such as Time magazine are heading out to Gaza…
Glaswegian Bring and Buy Sale Nets over £2,500 for Gaza’s Children
Mandy got in touch with us at the end of July, and innocuously announced that she was organising a bring and buy sale in Glasgow to support Gaza's traumatised children…
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…
How you brought clothing to one of the most traumatised families on earth
About a year ago, a social enterprise was planned for the Samouni family to assist with the education of their 100+ children, provide employment to their adults, and build support…
Clothing for the Samouni Family
During the bombardment and military incursion on Gaza at the end of 2008 and early 2009, one of the most widely reported incidents was that of the tragedy that befell…