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

Ms Pratten said she was told that the volunteers who operate in the camp ground were so busy dealing with health concerns that no-one had the capacity to completely engage with the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have got activities, a computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t even have a room where they could play.”She took to state that they are given permission to change a “mobile unit, full of old boxes” in the camp into a classroom, which Kaniwar, and a few other volunteers within the camp cleared out and full of donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed coming from a local school outside of the camp. The guts School runs by a local English teacher, that is and a refugee. So far, the project has raised around ?3,000.When we started “The kids were queuing up outside to penetrate the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can show about 100 kids. These kids happen to be by having a lot. Many of them choosing a lump sum their parents for the war. Others have mislaid their friends towards the sea. At this stage they simply must play and sing this will let you little bit of fun. For 4 years they’ve experienced that camp in addition to their lives have been receiving hold.”The goal of the publishing initiative is to raise funds to aid the institution. ‘Now how the school is defined I will be worried about the sustainability in the project. Asking people for money is difficult and so i decided to change my strategy and request for the help 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 1st 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 has been overwhelming. Book 1 and two are fully subscribed and that we have a very waiting list of authors ready to part of if someone can’t submit. We've got over 160 authors enrolled that are willing to bring about future projects. The very first book is going to be posted at the end of April and it will be launched in the Annual IATEFL conference to be held from 13 to 16 April at the ICC in Birmingham.