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A visiting lecturer in the University of Brighton has launched a publishing initiative to raise funds for educating Syrian children surviving in camps in Iraqi Kurdistan. In October 2015 Julie Pratten told us that they received a Facebook message getting the aid of a logistics officer in the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to boost money to set up a college in the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told how the volunteers who operate in the camping ground were so busy managing health problems that no-one had time to actually engage with the kids”, she said. “They didn’t possess activities, a computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t actually have a room where they may play.”She continued to say that they are given permission to change a “mobile unit, filled with old boxes” in the camp in to a classroom, which Kaniwar, and some other volunteers inside the camp cleared out and filled up with donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from the local school outside the camp. The Heart School runs by the local English teacher, that is and a refugee. Up to now, the project has raised around ?3,000.Once we started “The kids were queuing up outside to go into the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can teach about 100 kids. These kids have been by way of a lot. Many of them have forfeit their parents towards the war. Others have forfeit their friends towards the sea. At this point they simply have to play and sing this will let you little fun. For Four years they’ve held it's place in that camp and their lives have been receiving hold.”The objective of the publishing initiative is usually to raise funds to guide the school. ‘Now that this school is placed I will be concerned with the sustainability from the project. Asking people for money is tough therefore i chose to change my strategy and ask for help from the international community of ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten. I attracted authors and teachers to ‘donate’ one activity each. The first publication, A-Z of Hope can be a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers about the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors has become overwhelming. Book 1 and a couple of are fully subscribed so we have a very waiting report on authors prepared to step in if a person can’t submit. We've over 160 authors enrolled who're ready to bring about future projects. The 1st book is going to be posted at the end of April and it will be launched on the Annual IATEFL conference to be held from 13 to 16 April on the ICC in Birmingham.