ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten9239701

A visiting lecturer at 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 requesting the aid of a logistics officer on 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 that this volunteers who work in the camp ground were so busy managing health concerns that nobody had the capacity to actually engage the kids”, she said. “They didn’t possess activities, a computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t even have a room where they could play.”She proceeded to convey them to be given permission to change a “mobile unit, packed with old boxes” in the camp into a classroom, which Kaniwar, and several other volunteers from the camp cleared out and filled up with donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from a local school away from camp. One's heart School is run with a local English teacher, who is and a refugee. Up to now, the project has raised around ?3,000.When we started “The kids were queuing up outside to get in the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can educate about 100 kids. These kids happen to be through a lot. Many of them have mislaid their parents on the war. Others choosing a lump sum their friends towards the sea. At this time they merely need to play and sing and have a little fun. For 4 years they’ve experienced that camp along with their lives have been getting hold.”The goal of the publishing initiative is usually to raise funds to support the school. ‘Now that the school is placed I'm worried about the sustainability from the project. Asking people for money is hard so I thought we would change my strategy and request for aid 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 very first publication, A-Z of Hope is really a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers about the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors has been overwhelming. Book 1 and a pair of are fully subscribed so we possess a waiting listing of authors willing to step in if a person can’t submit. Now we have over 160 authors joined who will be prepared to contribute to future projects. The first book will be published at eliminate April and it will be launched with the Annual IATEFL conference to get held from 13 to 16 April with the ICC in Birmingham.