Friendly Welcome Gaza: Ruth Hawthorn, Nikki Jeffcote & Sara Feilden

‘We’d like to hear from Friends with advice or relevant experience.’

by Ruth Hawthorn, Nikki Jeffcote & Sara Feilden 6th March 2026

It’s hard to watch from afar as events unfold in Palestine, and it’s not easy to know how to help. So when an opportunity came last autumn to help someone in Gaza in a practical, life-changing way, we were drawn to it. She was a seventeen-year-old who had been offered a university place in Paris, and is now settled with a host family in Paris.