ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten939342

A visiting lecturer on the University of Brighton has launched a publishing initiative to improve funds for educating Syrian children moving into camps in Iraqi Kurdistan. In October 2015 Julie Pratten told us that they received a Facebook message asking for 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 create a college within the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told the volunteers who work in the camping ground were so busy coping with health problems that nobody had time to completely engage with the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have any activities, your personal computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t even have a room where they could play.”She went on to express that they are given permission to make a “mobile unit, packed with old boxes” from the camp right into a classroom, which Kaniwar, and several other volunteers inside the camp cleared out and filled up with donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed coming from a local school beyond your camp. The Heart School runs with a local English teacher, that's and a refugee. So far, the project has raised around ?3,000.When we started “The kids were queuing up outside to penetrate the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can show about 100 kids. These kids happen to be through a lot. Most of them have lost their parents on the war. Others have mislaid their friends for the sea. At this stage they just must play and sing and also have a amount of fun. For 4 years they’ve experienced that camp along with their lives have been receiving hold.”The purpose of the publishing initiative is usually to raise funds to support the institution. ‘Now that this school is placed We are worried about the sustainability of the project. Asking people for funds is i really decided to change my strategy and ask for the help 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 very first publication, A-Z of Hope is really a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers for the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors continues to be overwhelming. Book 1 and 2 are fully subscribed and that we have a waiting set of authors prepared to step in if someone else can’t submit. We've over 160 authors registered who are happy to bring about future projects. The 1st book is going to be posted at the end of April and it will be launched on the Annual IATEFL conference to be held from 13 to 16 April at the ICC in Birmingham.