ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten1767185

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

Ms Pratten said she was told that the volunteers who are employed in the camping ground were so busy working with health concerns that no-one had the capacity to completely engage with the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have activities, a pc, or craft supplies, they didn’t even have a room where they may play.”She proceeded to express that they were given permission to make a “mobile unit, full of old boxes” from the camp right into a classroom, which Kaniwar, and some other volunteers within the camp cleared out and full of donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from a local school beyond your camp. One's heart School is given by the local English teacher, that is also a refugee. Up to now, the work has raised around ?3,000.If we started “The kids were queuing up outside to go into the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can show about 100 kids. These kids are already by having a lot. A lot of them have lost their parents on the war. Others have forfeit their friends to the sea. At this time they only need to play and sing and also have a amount of fun. For Four years they’ve visited that camp and their lives have been getting hold.”The objective of the publishing initiative would be to raise funds to compliment the institution. ‘Now that this school is set up We are concerned with the sustainability of the project. Asking people for funds is and so i thought we would change my strategy and request for aid 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 is really a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers around the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors has become overwhelming. Book 1 and 2 are fully subscribed and now we have a very waiting report on authors willing to help if someone else can’t submit. Now we have over 160 authors signed up who are prepared to contribute to future projects. The 1st book is going to be posted at eliminate April and it will be launched on the Annual IATEFL conference to be held from 13 to 16 April in the ICC in Birmingham.