ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten4772824

A visiting lecturer with 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 that she received a Facebook message seeking help from a logistics officer at the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to increase money to setup a college in the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told how the volunteers who work in the camp were so busy coping with health concerns that nobody had the capacity to essentially engage with the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have got activities, some type of computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t actually have a room where they might play.”She proceeded to convey that they were given permission to make a “mobile unit, filled with old boxes” from the camp in to a classroom, which Kaniwar, and several other volunteers in the camp cleared out and filled with donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed coming from a local school outside of the camp. The center School is run by way of a local English teacher, who's additionally a refugee. To date, the work has raised around ?3,000.When we started “The kids were queuing up outside to get in the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can teach about 100 kids. These kids have been by having a lot. Some of them have forfeit their parents to the war. Others have mislaid their friends to the sea. During this period they just have to play and sing this will let you bit of fun. For Four years they’ve visited that camp and their lives have been receiving hold.”The purpose of the publishing initiative would be to raise funds to compliment the school. ‘Now how the school is set up I'm concerned with the sustainability with the project. Asking people for money is difficult so I made a decision to change my strategy and order the help of the international community of ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten. I attracted authors and teachers to ‘donate’ one activity each. The initial 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 become overwhelming. Book 1 and a couple of are fully subscribed and we have a very waiting set of authors willing to part of if someone can’t submit. We now have over 160 authors enrolled who will be prepared to help with future projects. The 1st book will probably be published at eliminate April and will also be launched at the Annual IATEFL conference to become held from 13 to 16 April in the ICC in Birmingham.