I had never been to the Middle East and very much wanted to go to Palestine so when I got the call from Amos Trust about the potential of a filming trip, I was on it like a hot knife on butter! Film maker Pip Piper shares his experiences of filming in Palestine with Amos Trust.

Ever since he was 16-years old, Bethlehem-born Sami Awad has been asking himself what is so powerful about non-violence. “Can I make a decision that is motivated by the future that I seek — not the past that I experience?” Megan Titley writes.

"This is a farm so the cacophony of noise since 5am has been ‘like a farmyard’ with howler monkeys sounding somewhere between a very loud arrogant cockerel to a kind of cow." Debbie O'Brien shares her thoughts after a recent Amos trip to Nicaragua.

“I shall remain eternally grateful that I boarded that plane and took a leap of faith — that I had the opportunity to work alongside such an inspirational group of people and experienced the immense privilege of being a small part of something that really matters.” Cambridge-based writer Sarah Baron traveled to the West Bank in April 2015 on an Amos Trust Home Rebuild trip. Here she tells us her story.