ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten7730257

A visiting lecturer in the University of Brighton has launched a publishing initiative to improve funds for educating Syrian children residing in camps in Iraqi Kurdistan. In October 2015 Julie Pratten told us she received a Facebook message getting the aid of a logistics officer in the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to raise money to put together an excellent in the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told that the volunteers who are employed in the camp were so busy managing health concerns that no-one had the capacity to really build relationships with the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have got activities, a computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t actually have a room where they might play.”She continued to state they were given permission to make a “mobile unit, full of old boxes” in the camp right into a classroom, which Kaniwar, and some other volunteers in the camp cleared out and filled up with donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed coming from a local school outside the camp. One's heart School operates with a local English teacher, who's also a refugee. Up to now, the work has raised around ?3,000.Once we started “The kids were queuing up outside to go into the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can teach about 100 kids. These kids are already by having a lot. Most of them choosing a lump sum their parents towards the war. Others choosing a lump sum their friends towards the sea. At this time they only have to play and sing and have a bit of fun. For 4 years they’ve held it's place in that camp in addition to their lives have been getting hold.”The objective of the publishing initiative is always to raise funds to guide the school. ‘Now that the school is set up I am interested in the sustainability from the project. Asking people for the money is difficult i really thought we would change my strategy and request 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 has been overwhelming. Book 1 and a couple of are fully subscribed and that we use a waiting report on authors willing to step up when someone can’t submit. We've got over 160 authors signed up who will be ready to contribute to future projects. The initial book will be published at the end of April and it will be launched with the Annual IATEFL conference to get held from 13 to 16 April with the ICC in Birmingham.