ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten1622642

A visiting lecturer with the University of Brighton has launched a publishing initiative to raise funds for educating Syrian children living in camps in Iraqi Kurdistan. In October 2015 Julie Pratten told us which she received a Facebook message asking for the help of a logistics officer in the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to increase money to put together a college from the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told the volunteers who be employed in the camp were so busy working with health problems that no-one had time to actually engage the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have got activities, your personal computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t actually have a room where they may play.”She proceeded to state them to be given permission to show a “mobile unit, packed with old boxes” from the camp in a classroom, which Kaniwar, and some other volunteers inside the camp cleared out and filled with donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from the local school outside of the camp. The guts School runs with a local English teacher, who is also a refugee. Up to now, the work has raised around ?3,000.Once we started “The kids were queuing up outside to penetrate the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can educate about 100 kids. These kids happen to be by having a lot. Many of them have mislaid their parents towards the war. Others have mislaid their friends towards the sea. At this point they just should play and sing this will let you bit of fun. For 4 years they’ve held it's place in that camp along with their lives have been getting hold.”The purpose of the publishing initiative is usually to raise funds to guide the institution. ‘Now that this school is defined I will be interested in the sustainability from the project. Asking people for money is hard and so i chose to 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 1st publication, A-Z of Hope can be a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers on the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors has been overwhelming. Book 1 and a pair of are fully subscribed so we have a very waiting set of authors willing to step up if someone can’t submit. We've got over 160 authors registered that are willing to bring about future projects. The very first book will probably be published at eliminate April and it'll be launched on the Annual IATEFL conference to be held from 13 to 16 April in the ICC in Birmingham.