ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten3711536

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

Ms Pratten said she was told that this volunteers who operate in the camping ground were so busy working with health concerns that nobody had time to essentially build relationships the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have activities, a pc, 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 turn 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 full of donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from the local school outside of the camp. The Heart School is run with a local English teacher, who's also a refugee. Thus far, the work has raised around ?3,000.Whenever we started “The kids were queuing up outside to type in the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can educate about 100 kids. These kids have already been through a lot. Many of them have forfeit their parents for the war. Others have forfeit their friends to the sea. At this stage they only must play and sing this will let you amount of fun. For Four years they’ve experienced that camp in addition to their lives have been getting hold.”The goal of the publishing initiative is to raise funds to aid the school. ‘Now the school is set up I am concerned about the sustainability in the project. Asking people for money is 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 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 for the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors has been overwhelming. Book 1 and 2 are fully subscribed so we have a waiting listing of authors willing to help when someone can’t submit. We now have over 160 authors enrolled who are ready to bring about future projects. The very first book will likely be published at eliminate April and it will be launched in the Annual IATEFL conference to be held from 13 to 16 April at the ICC in Birmingham.