ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten4277618

A visiting lecturer on the University of Brighton has launched a publishing initiative to increase funds for educating Syrian children living in camps in Iraqi Kurdistan. In October 2015 Julie Pratten told us she received a Facebook message asking for the help of a logistics officer at the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to raise money to create an excellent in the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told how the volunteers who be employed in the camping ground were so busy working with health concerns 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 also have a room where they could play.”She continued to express they were given permission to turn a “mobile unit, packed with old boxes” in the camp into a classroom, which Kaniwar, and a few other volunteers from the camp cleared out and stuffed with donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed coming from a local school beyond your camp. The Heart School runs by a local English teacher, that's also a refugee. Up to now, the project has raised around ?3,000.Once we started “The kids were queuing up outside to go into the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can educate about 100 kids. These kids have already been through a lot. A lot of them choosing a lump sum their parents towards the war. Others choosing a lump sum their friends towards the sea. At this time they just have to play and sing where you can bit of fun. For 4 years they’ve held it's place in that camp along with their lives have been getting hold.”The goal of the publishing initiative would be to raise funds to compliment the institution. ‘Now how the school is set up We are concerned with the sustainability in the project. Asking people for the money is and so i made a decision to 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 can be a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers on the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors may be overwhelming. Book 1 and two are fully subscribed so we have a waiting listing of authors able to step up when someone can’t submit. Now we have over 160 authors registered that are happy to contribute to future projects. The first book will likely be posted at eliminate April and will also be launched on the Annual IATEFL conference to become held from 13 to 16 April in the ICC in Birmingham.