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A visiting lecturer on 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 getting the aid of a logistics officer with the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to raise money to put together an excellent within the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told the volunteers who be employed in the camp were so busy coping with medical issues that nobody had time to completely build relationships the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have any activities, a computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t even have a room where they could play.”She took to express that they were given permission to show a “mobile unit, filled with old boxes” from the camp into a classroom, which Kaniwar, and some other volunteers in the camp cleared out and full of donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from the local school beyond your camp. One's heart School is run by way of a local English teacher, that's and a refugee. To date, the project has raised around ?3,000.Whenever we started “The kids were queuing up outside to get in the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can instruct about 100 kids. These kids have been by way of a lot. Some of them have lost their parents towards the war. Others have lost their friends to the sea. At this stage they only must play and sing and have a bit of fun. For 4 years they’ve been in that camp and their lives have been receiving hold.”The objective of the publishing initiative is usually to raise funds to guide the school. ‘Now the school is placed We are worried about the sustainability in the project. Asking people for money is hard so I made a decision to change my strategy and order aid 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 can be a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers around the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors continues to be overwhelming. Book 1 and two are fully subscribed and now we have a waiting report on authors able to step up when someone can’t submit. We've got over 160 authors signed up that are ready to bring about future projects. The initial book is going to be posted at the end of April and it'll be launched on the Annual IATEFL conference being held from 13 to 16 April in the ICC in Birmingham.