ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten169815

A visiting lecturer on the University of Brighton has launched a publishing initiative to boost funds for educating Syrian children moving into camps in Iraqi Kurdistan. In October 2015 Julie Pratten told us she received a Facebook message asking for the aid of a logistics officer on the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to raise money to create a college from the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told that this volunteers who be employed in the camping ground were so busy managing medical issues that nobody had the capacity to essentially engage with the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have activities, a computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t even have a room where they might play.”She proceeded to convey that they were given permission to make a “mobile unit, packed with old boxes” in the camp in a classroom, which Kaniwar, and some other volunteers in the camp cleared out and full of donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from the local school beyond your camp. The Heart School is given by the local English teacher, who's additionally a refugee. To date, the work has raised around ?3,000.If we started “The kids were queuing up outside to get in the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can instruct about 100 kids. These kids have already been through a lot. Some of them choosing a lump sum their parents towards the war. Others have forfeit their friends on the sea. At this time they simply have to play and sing and have a little bit of fun. For Four years they’ve been in that camp as well as their lives have been getting hold.”The goal of the publishing initiative would be to raise funds to aid the varsity. ‘Now how the school is placed I'm concerned about the sustainability from the project. Asking people for cash is and so i made a decision to change my strategy and ask 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 very first publication, A-Z of Hope is often a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers for the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors may be overwhelming. Book 1 and two are fully subscribed and that we have a waiting report on authors willing to help when someone can’t submit. Now we have over 160 authors signed up who will be happy to bring about future projects. The initial book will be published at the end of April and it will be launched with the Annual IATEFL conference being held from 13 to 16 April on the ICC in Birmingham.