ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten6327380

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

Ms Pratten said she was told that the volunteers who are employed in the camp ground were so busy coping with health issues that nobody had time to completely engage the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have got activities, a computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t actually have a room where they could play.”She went on to express them to be given permission to show a “mobile unit, full of old boxes” in the camp in a classroom, which Kaniwar, and several other volunteers from the camp cleared out and full of donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from your local school outside of the camp. The Heart School operates by way of a local English teacher, that's another refugee. Up to now, the project has raised around ?3,000.Whenever we started “The kids were queuing up outside to type in the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can teach about 100 kids. These kids have been through a lot. Some of them have mislaid their parents for the war. Others have forfeit their friends for the sea. At this stage they just should play and sing this will let you little bit of fun. For 4 years they’ve held it's place in that camp as well as their lives have been on hold.”The aim of the publishing initiative would be to raise funds to aid the school. ‘Now the school is to establish I will be concerned with the sustainability of the project. Asking people for cash is hard so I decided to change my strategy and request aid from the international community of ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten. I appealed to 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 continues to be overwhelming. Book 1 and a pair of are fully subscribed and that we have a waiting set of authors ready to help when someone can’t submit. We've got over 160 authors signed up who are ready to bring about future projects. The initial book will likely be published at get rid of April and will also be launched on the Annual IATEFL conference being held from 13 to 16 April at the ICC in Birmingham.