Ian Cave talks about a life of helping others – with the NHS and as a volunteer ‘accompanier’ in Palestine.

Ian Cave talks about a life of helping others – with the NHS and as a volunteer ‘accompanier’ in Palestine.
Oxford Brookes’ Gaza Scholarship was started in 2009 to “indicate to Palestinians in Gaza that they hadn’t been forgotten”. It funds students from Gaza to study for a Master’s degree at Oxford Brookes. Here is an update on the progress of some of our scholars following their time at Brookes.
In 2019, Haya Abdalhadi, received the Gaza Scholarship to study MA Development and Emergency Practice at Oxford Brookes’ renowned Centre for Development and Emergency Practice. She says receiving the scholarship was “like a dream coming […]
Hadil Louz is the eighth student to receive the Gaza Scholarship. Observe caught up with one of the scholarship’s founders, Sir Iain Chalmers, to find out how he and fellow Oxford Brookes honorary graduate, Dr Paul Brankin got it started.
Hadil Louz was typical of so many young people in Gaza, hungry for knowledge but finding it difficult to access further study; desperate to work to improve her society but unable to find a paid […]