ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten6691279

A visiting lecturer at the University of Brighton has launched a publishing initiative to raise funds for educating Syrian children living in camps in Iraqi Kurdistan. In October 2015 Julie Pratten told us that they received a Facebook message requesting aid from a logistics officer with the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to boost money to create an excellent inside the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told the volunteers who operate in the camp were so busy managing health issues that nobody had the capacity to actually build relationships the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have got activities, a pc, or craft supplies, they didn’t also have a room where they can play.”She continued to say them to be given permission to show a “mobile unit, full of old boxes” inside the camp right into a classroom, which Kaniwar, and a few other volunteers from the camp cleared out and full of donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from your local school beyond your camp. The center School is given with a local English teacher, who's also a refugee. To date, the project has raised around ?3,000.Once we started “The kids were queuing up outside to penetrate the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can show about 100 kids. These kids have been via a lot. Some of them choosing a lump sum their parents towards the war. Others have mislaid their friends for the sea. At this stage they just must play and sing and also have a little fun. For Four years they’ve experienced that camp and their lives have been receiving hold.”The purpose of the publishing initiative is usually to raise funds to guide the college. ‘Now the school is set up I will be concerned about the sustainability with the project. Asking people for cash is difficult so I decided to change my strategy and order 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 1st publication, A-Z of Hope is a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers around the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors has been overwhelming. Book 1 and a pair of are fully subscribed and that we use a waiting report on authors prepared to help if a person can’t submit. Now we have over 160 authors joined who are willing to bring about future projects. The 1st book is going to be published at no more April and will also be launched at the Annual IATEFL conference to get held from 13 to 16 April with the ICC in Birmingham.