The lives of Palestinian children mattter too!
Read More
"¡Espero que puedan ayudarnos! La situación está empeorando.”
Read More
St Louise's Comprehensive history teacher Paul Woods on BBC Radio Ulster 18/10/2023 talking of the conditions facing and fears for the safety of 3 teenager girls and 3 teachers from Gaza who visited Belfast for a drama project in autumn 2022.
Read More
How are you supporting the children of Gaza?
Read More
Music, theatre and art have long been used as tools for therapy in Gaza. For 17 years, international schools have been helping students living under an Israeli air, sea and land blockade. Teachers say the war is a catastrophic setback for those who’ve spent years building their talent and confidence. Al Jazeera’s Laura Khan reports. Nov 6 2023
Read More
“No somos personajes de un cuento, no, solo somos humanos y me mata que tenga que decir esto.”
Read More
This article written by Tracey Keeling appeared on ‘The Canary’ news Feb 20th 2022
Read More
An article about The Hands Up Project that was published for The Big Issue in 2019 about, using the internet to bring language alive for Palestinian kids. Along with a superb picture of Nick!
Read More
HUP’s Scott Thornbury gives a plenary talk that reviews and challenges some of the major developments in the teaching of EFL since the mid-sixties.
Read More
Nick Bilbrough’s blog written for The Macmillan Dictionary blog, published online in 2016 titled Words into worlds.
Read More
The Hands Up Projects Hanaa Mansour and Nick Bilbrough article titled The Play as a Living, Breathing, Ever-evolving Entity from issue 3 of the magazine of Humanising Language Teaching published June 2021.
Read More
Many hands, light work: team teaching within the Hands Up Project's online sessions. Read Nick’s May/June 2021 article in IATEFEL voices.
Read More
This article written by Tracey Keeling appeared on ‘The Canary’ news May 20th 2021.
Read More
On May 17th 2021 our dear Hands Up Project Co-ordinator Raja’a, appeared on Al Jazeera news and talked about her fear and stress of living in Gaza with a young family, during the crisis.
Read More
On Monday the 18th May, NIck and Diana (a teacher from Gaza) appeared on the Breakfast show on Soundart radio to talk about the Hands Up Project and how the crisis in Gaza is affecting Teachers & Students.
Read More
Listen to a short but inspiring message from teacher and long time Hands Up Volunteer, Haneen, who is based in Gaza, in which she talks about her students.
Read More
Read an article about The Hands Up Project by Nick, online on the Absolutely Intercultural website and listen to his Podcast.
Read More
In this blog, I intend to write my reflections on important learning points in my professional development journey. They will mostly be the moments when I get out of my comfort zone and enjoy the freedom of flying high and doing something new. It is an EFL teacher's PD diary.
Ayat Tawel
Read More
I’ve learnt so much from my mistakes I think I’ll make some more! Since its humble beginnings, where I connected alone from my kitchen to a group of children in a library in Gaza, The Hands Up Project now has over 50 active volunteers in every continent except Antarctica! From the outset we’ve embraced an approach to online learning which emphasises students making mistakes and we’ve certainly made some mistakes as teachers too. I’d like to share how these mistakes have led to success stories for our teachers and the learners we serve.
Read More