ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten7604462

A visiting lecturer with the University of Brighton has launched a publishing initiative to boost funds for educating Syrian children living in camps in Iraqi Kurdistan. In October 2015 Julie Pratten told us she received a Facebook message requesting the aid of a logistics officer with the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to improve money to set up a faculty inside the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told the volunteers who work in the camp were so busy dealing with health problems that no-one had time to essentially engage the kids”, she said. “They didn’t possess activities, some type of computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t also have a room where they might play.”She proceeded to say that they were given permission to turn a “mobile unit, brimming with old boxes” inside the camp in to a classroom, which Kaniwar, and several other volunteers in the camp cleared out and full of donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from a local school outside the camp. The Heart School is given with a local English teacher, who is another refugee. Thus far, the project has raised around ?3,000.If we started “The kids were queuing up outside to go into the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can educate about 100 kids. These kids have been by having a lot. A lot of them have mislaid their parents to the war. Others have forfeit their friends on the sea. At this time they simply have to play and sing and also have a little fun. For Four years they’ve experienced that camp and their lives have been getting hold.”The goal of the publishing initiative would be to raise funds to compliment the varsity. ‘Now the school is defined We are interested in the sustainability from the project. Asking people for funds is therefore i decided to change my strategy and request for the aid of 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 first publication, A-Z of Hope is really a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers on the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors continues to be overwhelming. Book 1 and two are fully subscribed so we have a very waiting report on authors willing to help when someone can’t submit. We've over 160 authors joined who will be happy to help with future projects. The first book will probably be published at no more April and it will be launched at the Annual IATEFL conference to get held from 13 to 16 April at the ICC in Birmingham.