Category: Opinion

Although Lebanon did not experience any destruction as a result of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake […]

Almost six months have passed since the first earthquake struck the Turkish Syrian border on […]

Flying in, it looks like any other city. A sprawl of lights, emanating from houses […]

Feelings of suffocation, shortness of breath, and coughing were all normal to 15-year old Mohammed. […]

The role will include managing our Financial Processes (management accounts, income and expenditure, budgeting and reforecasting) and our Donor Management system (Donorfy), while supporting the CEO with Legal & Governance.

Hear from Grand Junction ahead of the legendary Arabs Are Not Funny comedy night on 25 May to raise money for Hands Up.

Hands Up are looking for an enthusiastic, pro-active Fundraising Campaign Manager to join our small […]

We know you’ve missed it…  So due to popular demand the Syrian Kitchen Club is […]

One day, while Hassan was at his mosque in Tel Rifaat, Syria, he was wounded […]

Two months have now passed since the first earthquake struck the Turkish Syrian border, but […]

Thursday’s Syrian Supper Club was such a huge success, with the most delicious food from […]

Hector has been fundraising for Hands Up for years, and has just helped his school […]

Ten of the UK’s leading Arab comedians are taking to stage to raise money for […]

Many of you will have read about Aya1, the baby pulled from the rubble still […]

The earthquake which struck Syria and Turkey on the 6th February took the lives of […]

Fundraising for Hands Up? Here’s some things you need to know.   Thank you so […]

Hearing the stories of our partners on the ground has been heart-breaking. But I have […]

Equality is not just an ideal. It’s not just something we can sit around and […]

Over eleven years of conflict has shaken Syria’s foundations to the point of humanitarian catastrophe. […]

Hands Up Chairman, George Bulter, has returned from Antakya, Turkey, where he has been supporting […]

A week on from the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Syrian Turkish border, more than […]

At the end of the week that a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Turkish […]

Most people can relate to the feeling of frustration that comes when you can’t fully […]

At 4:17am this morning, as people lay sleeping, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck south east […]

Education is a human right, and the foundation for re-building strong and resilient communities.  But […]

Fatima was not able to sleep at night because of, what she described as, a […]

Hands Up Foundation have signed up to Run for Charity, meaning you can take part […]

“I want my people to live in peace and feel the stability again. But to […]

Today, Sunday 03 December, marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD). While we […]

This week only (1 – 8 December 2022), your donations to Hands Up’s Singing for […]

This Giving Tuesday, we’re asking you to hold off on making donations…for a few days.   […]

With everyone feeling the pinch this year, many of us will be using the Black […]

20th November, 2022 Since 1954, the 20th November has marked UNICEF’s World Children’s Day. It […]

The annual Singing for Syrians campaign is back, and this year it’s bigger and brighter […]

Tragically, since our last blogpost, Cholera has continued to spread across Syria. Since August, the […]

On Tuesday, after a long journey from London, 50 Koalaa prosthetics arrived in Syria. Although […]

Cholera. Easily preventable, yet potentially life-threatening. Devastatingly, this is the reality that many in Syria […]

The Syrian conflict has had a devastating impact on the availability of healthcare for people […]

Tickets have gone on sale for our Signing for Syrians Carol Concert, which raises money […]

Since the start of the conflict in Syria, 70% of medical staff have left the […]

It has been more than eleven years since Syria’s conflict started.   Eleven years of deadly […]

Our special Signing for Syrians Carol Concert, which raises money for Syria’s most vulnerable, is […]

As the Syrian conflict enters its 12th year, it matters more than ever to remember […]

As pupils and students across the UK get ready to head back to school, so […]

Recently in Lebanon, the situation of Syrian refugees has become steadily worse due to the […]

This month, I would like to talk about another success story of Syrians in Lebanon. […]

Hands Up is an innovative charity that funds health and education programmes in Syria and […]

Ramadan is a student at Sawa school in the Bekaa Valley. Alongside 300 other Syrian […]

The education system in Lebanon is at risk of collapse, with devastating consequences for children, […]

This winter, Hands Up has been selected to take part in The Big Give Christmas […]

This Christmas, UK charities are coming together at London’s historic Lambeth Palace for a unique […]

We are delighted to be collaborating with Rory Hutton on our Christmas cards again this year. […]

We have often heard success stories of Syrian refugees in their various host countries, but […]

The 4th of August has become an ominous date that will remain engraved in the […]

Actor, director and writer Peter Capaldi makes a BBC Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of […]

Today Muslims will celebrate Eid al-Adha, which is one of their two holidays, or “Eids”. […]

Syria and Lebanon are neighbouring countries. Some relations and interests bind the two countries and […]

In the lead up to Eid el-Fitr (the Festival of the Breaking of Fast), we […]

Today – 12th April – is the first day of Ramadan – the most sacred […]

I am glad to be part of the Hands Up Foundation and to write as […]

Programme Report – April 2021 March this year marked ten years since the start of […]

In February 2020, all schools and education centres were closed for Lebanon’s first lockdown to […]

On Sunday, 21st March at 8.20am local time, three artillery strikes targeted the SAMS-supported Al-Atareb […]

Today is an important marker: it is ten years since the Syrian conflict began. It’s […]

Against the dramatic backdrop of a derelict Victorian theatre, Sacconi Quartet perform a moving rendition […]

As International Women’s Day – on the 8th March – is fast approaching, what better […]

The reproductive health clinic at the medical centre in Tel Abyad, north Syria, run by […]

We’re over the moon to announce that Pooky and Hands Up have collaborated. What fantastic […]

As the nightmare that is 2020 draws to an end, our impulse to try to […]

We’re very excited to introduce the Syrian Kitchen Club, bringing the most delicious and exclusive Syrian […]

We’re very proud to be supported by Earl’s Court Film Festival for the second year […]

When social distancing makes fundraising trickier, Smarties have the answer! Join our Smarties Challenge and help us […]

George Butler spent a week meeting our partners in Gaziantep in October 2020, these are […]

We’re very excited to announce a collaboration with award-winning artist, designer and historian Rory Hutton, who has […]

It is the beginning of the week and today, like last Monday and the Monday […]

COVID-19 has cancelled all our events this summer, which would have raised £70,000. Please support […]

Amid the world’s rising fears of the coronavirus outbreak spreading to more countries at an […]

In a new series of blogs across the year we’re conducting, Hands Up have decided […]

Mitt Wearables create comfortable, easy-to-fit, user-friendly prosthetic limbs. This article was written by Nicholas Mellor, Mitt Wearables […]

Storytelling is one of Syria’s greatest traditions and Al Hakawati holds a special place in […]

Urgent funds are needed for medical supplies in Idlib Donate online here The situation in North […]

In a new series of blogs across the year we’re conducting, Hands Up have decided […]

Hands Up’s regular blogger, Melie Pemberton, a teacher currently living in Beirut, has sent us […]

Hands Up’s new regular blogger, Melie Pemberton, a teacher currently living in Beirut, has sent […]

The Hands Up Foundation were awarded Jusoor’s Bridges Award on 4 October at Jusoor’s 6th […]

This is a picture of one of the lovely Syrian families I met whilst working […]

Hands Up is thrilled to introduce our new regular blogger, Melie Pemberton. Melie is a […]

On Monday morning at 9am, the Primary Health Clinic supported by Hands Up, and managed […]

Eight years ago, I was living in Damascus. Before arriving in 2010, I had only […]

Lament for Syria is a poem written by Amineh Abou Kerech, winner of the 2017 Betjamin […]

This beautiful poem by the great Lord Tennyson was read by the Attorney General, Geoffrey […]

16th – 19th October 2018 The team: Rose, Louisa, Amanda: Hands up Foundation director, founder […]

Eid Al-Adha is a celebration that brings happiness and joy to many communities across the […]

In early May, three of us went to the Turkish border with Syria, to meet […]

15th March 2018 Today marks the seventh year of the conflict in Syria. I remember […]

A great piece of analysis from Abdulkarim Ekzayez, a Syrian medical doctor, discussing whether the […]

It takes violence of unprecedented levels for Syria to be newsworthy at the moment. Perhaps […]

We are very excited to announce that monthly Syrian Supper Clubs are launching in three new locations […]

On the 7th January 2018 the Primary Health Clinic supported by Hands Up, and managed […]

The final reading of the service was given by Colin Thubron, the acclaimed travel writer. […]

The fourth reading of the service absolutely brought the house down. Martin Jarvis, narrator of […]

The 2nd reading at our flagship carol service was this excellent monologue by Marriott Edgar, […]

The Hands Up  Foundation / Abel & Cole team up continues apace, with our sold […]

This poem, the first reading at the Hands Up flagship carol service, is by Nizar […]

George, Trustee and Founder of Hands Up, gave the address at 2017’s flagship Singing for […]

Rush hour commuters at Marylebone Station got a festive surprise last Friday, courtesy of Singing […]

Join us for Hands Up’s flagship Singing for Syrians‘ carol service at St Margaret’s, Westminster on Tuesday 12th […]

You may have noticed that in doing your good deeds for Hands Up, we often […]

For the last three years, Abel & Cole and Hands Up have been working together, […]

At Syria, Food for Thought this Thursday, 12th October, we will be inviting everyone to pledge […]

This week we wanted to put the spotlight on ‘Spirit of Syria’, a visual heritage project […]

At Hands Up, we spend a huge amount of time making sure we know exactly […]

Singing for Syrians 2017 is here and we’re launching it in the House of Commons […]

Tickets are go – grab yours here Hands Up is back with a party this […]

THE TRUSTEES George Butler, Chair George is an award-winning artist and illustrator specialising in travel […]

Check this out people, Lucas, Adam and Lucas are cycling the length of the Pyrenees […]

Here’s the latest newsletter with everything that Hands Up has been doing, from new partners […]

This is a prime example of people bothering to get up and do something and […]

Brace yourselves people, because Hands Up has a party coming to town… get the date […]

Sitting in an office in London (or anywhere in the UK) it is hard to […]

Gaziantep, 10th May 2017, 12:55pm While meeting with staff from SAMS office in Gaziantep, we […]

We went down to Park Loft Studios today to drop off some MarmalAid for their […]

#MarmalAid sales are on in Little Dockray, Penrith at #marmaladeawards. Come and see us! ? #penrithgoesorange #handsupfoundation […]

Dear Singers, Thank you for all you did to raise money for some of Syria’s […]

Marmalade, the taste, smell and sight of it on toast conjures up different feelings for […]

Yeshe, in year six at Queen Anne’s School, is bravely shaving her head to raise […]

Dear all, We are very excited to send you Hands Up’s first official newsletter – it has […]

Check l’Institut Francais’ website for tickets… In this deeply personal documentary, veteran Syrian documentarian Hala […]

Dear friends, Many of you have been asking where and how you can help Syrian […]

Check out this video of MarmalAid making by the very lovely people at North 19 […]

Remembering the weeks running up to March 2011, when the streets of the city were […]

26th July 2012   Tonight we have our first Syrian pop-up restaurant. It is a […]