ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten2520216

A visiting lecturer in 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 she received a Facebook message seeking the help of a logistics officer on the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to boost money to create a college inside the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told that the volunteers who work in the camping ground were so busy working with health concerns that nobody had time to essentially engage the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have any activities, some type of computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t also have a room where they could play.”She went on to say that they are given permission to make a “mobile unit, packed with old boxes” from the camp into a classroom, which Kaniwar, plus some other volunteers within the camp cleared out and filled up with donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from the local school beyond your camp. The Heart School is given with a local English teacher, that is and a refugee. Up to now, the work has raised around ?3,000.Once we started “The kids were queuing up outside to get in the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can educate about 100 kids. These kids have already been through a lot. A lot of them have mislaid their parents to the war. Others choosing a lump sum their friends on the sea. At this point they only must play and sing and also have a bit of fun. For Four years they’ve experienced that camp and their lives have been getting hold.”The objective of the publishing initiative is always to raise funds to support the varsity. ‘Now how the school is to establish I am interested in the sustainability with the project. Asking people for the money is tough i really made a decision to change my strategy and request help from the international community of ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten. I drawn authors and teachers to ‘donate’ one activity each. The initial publication, A-Z of Hope is a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers about the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors has become overwhelming. Book 1 and a couple of are fully subscribed so we have a very waiting listing of authors willing to help if a person can’t submit. We now have over 160 authors registered who will be prepared to help with future projects. The 1st book will likely be published at the end of April and will also be launched at the Annual IATEFL conference to get held from 13 to 16 April at the ICC in Birmingham.