Bella Freud on the Hoping Foundation, at 5x15

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Bella Freud on the Hoping Foundation, at 5x15

14 Jun 2010

Speakers: Bella Freud

Fashion designer Bella Freud talks about why she was moved to set up her charity the Hoping Foundation, before explaining the work that the charity does, offering grants to small organisations in the refugee camps of Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. She talks about her visits to the region and witnessing first hand the wall being constructed, springing up through people’s gardens, separating and dividing communities indiscriminately.

Freud explains the strangling and suffocating affect that the Israel is having on the communities of Palestine; the jobs that they cannot apply for, the restrictions of movement that force women to give birth at checkpoints and the Israeli bureaucracy that prevents Palestinians from even securing their own water. She concludes with a more detailed account of the work of the charity and the help it has received from artists such as Elton John and Massive Attack.