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

Ms Pratten said she was told how the volunteers who be employed in the camping ground were so busy working with health problems that nobody had the capacity to actually engage the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have activities, a computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t actually have a room where they may play.”She went on to say they were given permission to show a “mobile unit, packed with old boxes” from the camp in to a classroom, which Kaniwar, and several other volunteers in the camp cleared out and full of donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from the local school outside of the camp. The center School is given by the local English teacher, who's also a refugee. To date, the work 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 happen to be through a lot. A lot of them choosing a lump sum their parents towards the war. Others choosing a lump sum their friends for the sea. At this point they just must play and sing where you can bit of fun. For Four years they’ve been in that camp and their lives have been on hold.”The goal of the publishing initiative is usually to raise funds to guide the school. ‘Now how the school is placed I will be concerned about the sustainability of the project. Asking people for the money is i really made a decision to change my strategy and ask for the aid of the international community of ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten. I attracted authors and teachers to ‘donate’ one activity each. The 1st publication, A-Z of Hope is often a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers on the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors has become overwhelming. Book 1 and a pair of are fully subscribed and that we have a waiting list of authors ready to step up if someone else can’t submit. We've over 160 authors joined that are willing to help with future projects. The initial book will likely 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 at the ICC in Birmingham.