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A visiting lecturer with 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 which she received a Facebook message getting the aid of a logistics officer with the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to increase money to put together a faculty within the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told that this volunteers who are employed in the camp were so busy managing health concerns that nobody had the capacity to really engage with the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have any activities, some type of computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t even have a room where they could play.”She continued to state that they were given permission to turn a “mobile unit, full of old boxes” within the camp in a classroom, which Kaniwar, plus some other volunteers inside the camp cleared out and filled with donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from the local school beyond your camp. One's heart School is given by a local English teacher, that's also a refugee. Thus far, the project has raised around ?3,000.If we started “The kids were queuing up outside to type in the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can show about 100 kids. These kids have already been by having a lot. Most of them have forfeit their parents on the war. Others choosing a lump sum their friends towards the sea. At this point they just have to play and sing where you can little bit of fun. For 4 years they’ve held it's place in that camp and their lives have been getting hold.”The goal of the publishing initiative would be to raise funds to guide the varsity. ‘Now the school is placed We are concerned about the sustainability from the project. Asking people for money is difficult so I decided to change my strategy and request the aid of the international community of ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten. I attracted authors and teachers to ‘donate’ one activity each. The initial publication, A-Z of Hope is really a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers around the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors has become overwhelming. Book 1 and a pair of are fully subscribed and we have a waiting set of authors willing to help when someone can’t submit. We now have over 160 authors registered who're ready to contribute to future projects. The first book will likely be published at the end of April and will also be launched at the Annual IATEFL conference to get held from 13 to 16 April on the ICC in Birmingham.