ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten1834680

A visiting lecturer in 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 seeking aid from a logistics officer in the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to improve money to setup a faculty in the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told how the volunteers who be employed in the camping ground were so busy dealing with health problems that nobody had time to completely build relationships with the kids”, she said. “They didn’t have got activities, a pc, or craft supplies, they didn’t actually have a room where they can play.”She proceeded to say that they are given permission to turn a “mobile unit, full of old boxes” from the camp into a classroom, which Kaniwar, and some other volunteers in the camp cleared out and filled with donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from your local school outside the camp. One's heart School is run by way of a local English teacher, that's also a refugee. Thus far, the work 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 through a lot. Many of them have lost their parents on the war. Others have forfeit their friends for the sea. During this period they just should play and sing this will let you amount of fun. For 4 years they’ve experienced that camp as well as their lives have been on hold.”The purpose of the publishing initiative is always to raise funds to guide the varsity. ‘Now the school is placed I'm interested in the sustainability with the project. Asking people for money is hard i really thought we would 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 is really 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 couple of are fully subscribed and that we use a waiting set of authors ready to step up if someone else can’t submit. Now we have over 160 authors signed up who're ready to help with future projects. The initial book will be posted at eliminate April and it'll be launched with the Annual IATEFL conference being held from 13 to 16 April in the ICC in Birmingham.