ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten9363740

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

Ms Pratten said she was told the volunteers who operate in the camp ground were so busy working with health problems that no-one had the capacity to essentially engage with the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have activities, some type of computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t also have a room where they could play.”She went on to convey that they were given permission to show a “mobile unit, filled with old boxes” within the camp in a classroom, which Kaniwar, plus some other volunteers in the camp cleared out and filled with donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from the local school beyond your camp. The guts School runs by the local English teacher, that is another refugee. To date, the project has raised around ?3,000.If we started “The kids were queuing up outside to penetrate the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can educate about 100 kids. These kids have been by way of a lot. Most of them have lost their parents on the war. Others choosing a lump sum their friends for the sea. At this point they merely should play and sing and have a little bit of fun. For 4 years they’ve visited that camp along with their lives have been receiving hold.”The objective of the publishing initiative is to raise funds to guide the school. ‘Now that the school is set up I am concerned with the sustainability with the project. Asking people for money is tough so I chose to change my strategy and ask for help from the international community of ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten. I drawn 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 for the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors has been overwhelming. Book 1 and a pair of are fully subscribed and we have a very waiting list of authors ready to part of when someone can’t submit. We've over 160 authors registered who will be ready to help with future projects. The initial book is going to be published at get rid of April and it will be launched with the Annual IATEFL conference to become held from 13 to 16 April with the ICC in Birmingham.