ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten9994116

A visiting lecturer with the University of Brighton has launched a publishing initiative to increase funds for educating Syrian children moving into camps in Iraqi Kurdistan. In October 2015 Julie Pratten told us that they received a Facebook message seeking the aid of a logistics officer with the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to improve money to set up a college in the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told that this volunteers who be employed in the camp were so busy managing health concerns that no-one had the capacity to actually 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 could play.”She went on to say that they are given permission to change a “mobile unit, full of old boxes” within the camp into a classroom, which Kaniwar, plus some other volunteers from the camp cleared out and full of donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from a local school away from camp. One's heart School is run by way of a local English teacher, who's another refugee. So far, the work has raised around ?3,000.Whenever 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 through a lot. Most of them have forfeit their parents towards the war. Others choosing a lump sum their friends towards the sea. At this stage they only must play and sing and also have a little fun. For 4 years they’ve experienced that camp and their lives have been getting hold.”The purpose of the publishing initiative is usually to raise funds to support the institution. ‘Now that the school is to establish I am worried about the sustainability of the project. Asking people for funds is tough so I chose to change my strategy and request for 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 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 a couple of are fully subscribed and we have a waiting report on authors able to step up if someone can’t submit. Now we have over 160 authors signed up who are willing to give rise to future projects. The initial book will 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.