A Moveable Feast
By Safiya Young August has been a very exciting month, in terms of cooking. Women’s Voice, a “non-profit CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation) run by and for women in Hastings and St Leonards”, recently hosted a series of workshops to promote…
Syrian Resettlement: “Working Brilliantly”, Says Project Co-ordinator
Simon Finlay, Project Co-ordinator of the Syrian Resettlement Programme at Hastings Borough Council, seems a happy man these days. He has spent half a lifetime working for organisations that have endeavoured, on a shoestring, to assist refugees to negotiate the…
Emergency Refugee Camp Dentistry
It’s hard to imagine anything worse than being forced to uproot your family, abandon your home and set off across the planet in search of sanctuary. For many refugees the struggle is made far worse by sickness and physical pain.…
Passion Wins Over Process
The reconfiguring of open on grand parade Rossana Leal, whose award of Woman of the Year at the Women on the Move ceremony was featured in HIP issue 123, has exciting plans for ‘Open’ on Grand Parade, St Leonards. Rossana…
BUDDY UP – Hastings Local Wins International Women’s Day Award
By Gareth Stevens Rossana Leal, founder of the Hastings & Rother Refugee Buddy Project has had her innovative community leadership work recognised at the Women of the World Festival in London. PICTURE: Dave Young On Sunday 10th March, the day…
Bombing in the Middle-East
Abraham West News that the UK was involved in a bombing mission in Syria was announced by Donald Trump at a press conference and shared on Twitter at on Saturday 14th April. The US president opened the press briefing with…
Not Here Not Us Short stories of Syria – Author: Bronwen Griffiths
A Hip Read - reviewed by Pete Donohue Hastings author Bronwen Griffiths describes herself as an activist committed to solidarity with the Syrian Revolution. Whether those opposing an oppressive regime should be labelled revolutionaries or terrorists is no new…