Charity trust which connects young people and English teachers in Palestine with an international volunteer network. Online interaction, drama & storytelling.

Totnes, England
Joined August 2018
🎨🤎 Art From Rubble Daily Update 🇵🇸 Bubbles, laughter, and little smiles! 🫧 Nada and the children enjoyed their Bubbles, Not Bombs activity simple moments of joy. Every child deserves to play freely and just be a child.
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Exciting classes we have with our lovely volunteer, Jane. 💓🙏 Our students are very lucky to have a great teacher like her.
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An active, cheerful day with our art therapist and our lovely students. 📷📷 #HandsUpProject #freepalesti̇ne
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Mr. Samir and his students in Gaza brought Juha and the Meat to life through storytelling games, teamwork, and fun challenges! Learning is always more exciting when stories come alive. Donate: justgiving.com/page/donna-ca…
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🎤 Hands Up Public Speaking Course! Ages 10–16, online, starting in November. 📝 Register by 25 October: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… 🎤 دورة الخطابة من Hands Up! للأعمار 10–16 سنة، عبر الإنترنت، وتبدأ في نوفمبر. 📝 التسجيل حتى 25 أكتوبر عبر الرابط أعلاه.
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Fatima, one of our Cairo Space students, captured this lovely video of our trip to Dream Park with students and teachers from the Hands Up Educational Care Space. A day to have fun, make memories, and simply enjoy being children. Support our Cairo Space: justgiving.com/page/peter-os…
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Read all about our brand new, 'Art From Poetry' competition - mailchi.mp/bbb6971874ef/2025…
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📚🐊 Stories Alive Club in Gaza 🇵🇸 Miss Hannah and her students brought The Crocodile and the Monkey to life through chants, role-play, picture descriptions, and fun games to practise vocabulary and sentence ordering! Donate here: justgiving.com/page/donna-ca…
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🎨🤎 Art From Rubble Daily Update 🇵🇸 Little hands, colourful faces, and lots of smiles! 🥰 Nada and the children shared joyful moments of painting, creativity, and laughter. Because art is also about the happiness we create together. ✨🫶🏻
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🎤 Hands Up Public Speaking Course! Ages 10–16, online, starting in November. 📝 Register by 25 October: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… 🎤 دورة الخطابة من Hands Up! للأعمار 10–16 سنة، عبر الإنترنت، وتبدأ في نوفمبر. 📝 التسجيل حتى 25 أكتوبر عبر الرابط أعلاه.
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Thank you to Marian Eastwood for reading her own poem, inspired by Palestinian artist Nada Rajab, during the beautiful walks at Sacro Monte, Lake Orta, Italy, as part of the 25th anniversary of Poetry on the Lake.
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Voices of Mental Health Workers in Gaza Join Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) on 14 November in London for an event honouring mental health workers in Gaza featuring talks films and exhibitions including children’s artwork collected by The HUP £10 / £5 unwaged tickettailor.com/events/pale…
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🍏🎶 Dance Against Racism – Exeter! Join us on 28 November, 7–11pm at Exeter Library for a night of global bass music with Somatic, raising vital funds for Exeter Stand Up To Racism. 🎟️ Tickets: £15/£12 BYOD
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From our Interesting show and tell sessions 📷📷 Our students at the Hands up Project space in Cairo share their beautiful drawings and talk about them with our volunteers in Totness📷📷
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🎨♻️ Art From Rubble Daily Update Nada and the children created finger puppets from recycled materials, learning new English words and bringing their little characters to life through playful conversations. 🐭🐸🤎 Turning discarded materials into creativity, joy, and smiles!
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Cairo Space: Finding Myself Our student Marah shares how the Hands Up Educational Space in Cairo became more than a school — a family where she discovered her confidence, creativity, friendships, and her true self. Read Marah’s heartfelt story: handsupproject.org/blog-hup/…
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From Gaza We Speak — a 50-minute documentary about The Hands Up Project’s drama work with young people in Gaza, followed by a live link with original creators. 10 October, 7 PM Macrobert Cinema, Stirling University Tickets: £6 + booking fee macrobertartscentre.org/show…
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The Hands Up Project retweeted
Replying to @MichaelRosenYes
@MichaelRosenYes’s powerful poem penned in 2014 #DontMentionTheChildren translated into #urdu for the @HandsUpProject
@redwizz1 Hafsah Aneela Bashir Reading the Urdu version of " Don't Mention The Children
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@redwizz1 Hafsah Aneela Bashir Reading the Urdu version of " Don't Mention The Children
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