ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten569090

A visiting lecturer in 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 asking for the help of a logistics officer at the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to boost money to create a college within the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told the volunteers who work in the camping ground were so busy dealing with health problems that no-one had the capacity to completely build relationships with the kids”, she said. “They didn’t possess activities, some type of computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t even have a room where they could play.”She took to say that they were given permission to change a “mobile unit, packed with old boxes” in the camp in to a classroom, which Kaniwar, and several other volunteers from the camp cleared out and full of donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from a local school outside the camp. The Heart School is run by a local English teacher, who's also a refugee. So far, the project has raised around ?3,000.When we started “The kids were queuing up outside to type in the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can show about 100 kids. These kids have been by having a lot. Many of them choosing a lump sum their parents for the war. Others have lost their friends towards the sea. At this time they only must play and sing and have a amount of fun. For Four years they’ve been in that camp as well as their lives have been on hold.”The objective of the publishing initiative would be to raise funds to compliment the college. ‘Now the school is defined I will be interested in the sustainability from the project. Asking people for funds is and so i made a decision to change my strategy and request the aid of the international community of ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten. I appealed to authors and teachers to ‘donate’ one activity each. The 1st publication, A-Z of Hope is a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers around the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors may be overwhelming. Book 1 and two are fully subscribed so we use a waiting listing of authors willing to part of if someone can’t submit. We've over 160 authors registered who will be happy to help with future projects. The very first book will likely be published at no more April and it'll be launched in the Annual IATEFL conference to be held from 13 to 16 April on the ICC in Birmingham.