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A visiting lecturer at the University of Brighton has launched a publishing initiative to improve funds for educating Syrian children moving into camps in Iraqi Kurdistan. In October 2015 Julie Pratten told us she received a Facebook message asking for aid from a logistics officer in the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to raise money to setup a college inside the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told how the volunteers who operate in the camp were so busy dealing with health issues that no-one had the capacity to essentially build relationships with 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 took to say that they are given permission to turn a “mobile unit, packed with old boxes” within the camp into a classroom, which Kaniwar, and several other volunteers inside the camp cleared out and filled up with donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from the local school outside of the camp. The center School runs by a local English teacher, who's and a refugee. Thus far, the project has raised around ?3,000.If we started “The kids were queuing up outside to type in the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can show about 100 kids. These kids happen to be through a lot. Most of them choosing a lump sum their parents to the war. Others have mislaid their friends towards the sea. At this stage they only should play and sing this will let you little fun. For Four years they’ve been in that camp in addition to their lives have been on hold.”The goal of the publishing initiative is usually to raise funds to aid the institution. ‘Now that this school is defined We are worried about the sustainability with the project. Asking people for money is and so i thought we would change my strategy and order 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 initial publication, A-Z of Hope is really a crowdsourced book of 26 activities for young learners to teenagers about the universal theme of joy and happiness. The response from authors has become overwhelming. Book 1 and a pair of are fully subscribed so we use a waiting set of authors willing to step up when someone can’t submit. Now we have over 160 authors joined who are happy to help with future projects. The first book will probably be published at no more April and it will be launched on the Annual IATEFL conference to become held from 13 to 16 April at the ICC in Birmingham.