In this heartfelt blog, one of our brilliant students, Marah, reflects on her journey at the Hands Up Educational Space in Cairo.
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As well as in Bristol and Totnes, we now have our very own space in Ireland!
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It was a pleasure to lead the Storytelling Techniques course for HUP this summer alongside Sahar Salhar and some amazing volunteers.
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I'm Wafaa Khudeir, an English teacher from Gaza, Palestine, working with the Hands Up Project.
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The room was framed in a deafening silence. A handful of young faces sat motionless, staring blankly at the door
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It all started when Roaa Al Masri wrote the poem ‘Distorted by my sadness’ as a submission for the 2023 Hands Up Project poetry competition.
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A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of co-leading a creative writing and poetry workshop as part of the Bridges to Gaza project.
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In this week’s blog, Miss Hannah from the Stories Alive Club in Gaza shares how storytelling turns English lessons into joyful, creative adventures.
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I’m sure you know that we now have two of our books, which have been translated into Spanish - Moon tell me truth and Shattered.
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In this blog, Hands Up Project Cairo Space Manager Rozan Elsaqqa reflects on the creation of Palestine Won the World Cup—a student-led theatre production that celebrates hope, imagination, and resilience.
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We can’t deny the fact that AI has had a huge impact on second language education in recent years.
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In this blog, Miss Clara Vázquez shares her experience implementing The Hands Up Project in Mexico and bringing its stories, activities, and values into her country.
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By Our Events Coordinator, Ashraf Kuhail, in the UK.
There is a quiet, profound defiance in a child choosing to open a book when the world around them is falling apart.
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In this blog, our volunteer Karen shares her reflections on the two weeks she spent at the Hands Up Educational Space in Cairo, working alongside our students and fellow volunteer Tony.
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By Mohammed Hisham,
Literature has the power to connect students with ideas that extend far beyond the pages of a story. This week, students embarked on an exciting journey with Jebene
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By Our Volunteer & Learning Coordinator, Safa Ahmed, The Challenge Behind the Impressive Vocabulary. One challenge that many of our volunteers have noticed across Hands Up projects is learners' tendency to use what we sometimes call "big words".
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1) Organise the class into groups of three or four. Ask them to discuss how they feel when they see the flag of England or the flag of the United Kingdom displayed.
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It becomes a voice that survives distance. A memory that refuses to disappear.
A bridge between people who may never meet, yet somehow still understand one another.
We’ll never really know what led Fatema to write ‘Not for shooting gun’ instead of ‘Not for shooting guns’. But we do know that we’re glad that she did, because this is poetry, and, like all good poetry, it uses language in original ways to help us understand something about the world.
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