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A visiting lecturer at 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 they received a Facebook message seeking aid from a logistics officer at the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to boost money to setup an excellent inside the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told how the volunteers who are employed in the camping ground were so busy dealing with medical issues that no-one had the capacity to essentially engage the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have any activities, your personal computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t actually have a room where they could play.”She proceeded to state that they are given permission to change a “mobile unit, full of old boxes” from the camp in a classroom, which Kaniwar, and some other volunteers within the camp cleared out and full of donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from your local school away from camp. The center School is run by way of a local English teacher, that is and a refugee. To date, 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 educate about 100 kids. These kids are already via a lot. Most of them have forfeit their parents towards the war. Others choosing a lump sum their friends to the sea. At this time they merely need to play and sing and also have a little fun. For Four years they’ve experienced that camp as well as their lives have been on hold.”The purpose of the publishing initiative would be to raise funds to compliment the college. ‘Now the school is to establish I am concerned with the sustainability of the project. Asking people for funds is tough so I thought we would change my strategy and order help from 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 a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers around the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors may be overwhelming. Book 1 and two are fully subscribed and we have a waiting report on authors prepared to part of if someone can’t submit. Now we have over 160 authors registered who're willing to give rise to future projects. The first book is going to be posted at the end of April and it will be launched on the Annual IATEFL conference to become held from 13 to 16 April with the ICC in Birmingham.