{"id":573727,"date":"2025-11-16T08:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/573727\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T08:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:09:13","slug":"from-gaza-to-goldsmiths-the-extraordinary-journey-of-a-palestinian-student-finding-hope-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/573727\/","title":{"rendered":"From Gaza to Goldsmiths: The extraordinary journey of a Palestinian student finding hope in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But accolades alone weren\u2019t enough to secure her a place in the UK. Getting the necessary proof of her English-language abilities took months and is a hurdle that many Palestinian students struggle to navigate. Hanya also said, \u201cit took me a village to get me here,\u201d crediting many people for their help, including Alice Walpole, the Director of Goodenough College, the Kay Mason Foundation, AfH, the Gaza Scholarship Initiative, the Red Cross, and UK government officials. Rebecca Long-Bailey, Member of Parliament for Salford, was among those supporting Hanya\u2019s journey: &#8220;When I first spoke with Hanya online about her tireless humanitarian aid work, she panned her webcam across to show me the view from Action for Humanity&#8217;s Gaza aid work office: It was rubble, ruins, and devastation. Hope was in short supply,\u201d she told The Standard, adding she was \u201cdelighted\u201d that Hanya finally made it to London. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But accolades alone weren\u2019t enough to secure her a place in the UK. Getting the necessary proof of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,2194,70583,4884,257,1814,15236,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-573727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-gaza","11":"tag-goldsmiths","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-palestine","15":"tag-student","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}