ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten7531408

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

Ms Pratten said she was told that this volunteers who work in the camp ground were so busy dealing with health concerns that no-one had the capacity to actually build relationships with the kids”, she said. “They didn’t possess activities, a computer, or craft supplies, they didn’t actually have a room where they can play.”She proceeded to state they were given permission to make a “mobile unit, brimming with old boxes” within the camp in a classroom, which Kaniwar, and some other volunteers from the camp cleared out and full of donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from your local school outside the camp. The center School runs by the local English teacher, who's another refugee. Thus far, the work has raised around ?3,000.Whenever we started “The kids were queuing up outside to penetrate the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can teach about 100 kids. These kids happen to be via a lot. Many of them choosing a lump sum their parents to the war. Others choosing a lump sum their friends towards the sea. At this point they just should play and sing where you can bit of fun. For 4 years they’ve visited that camp in addition to their lives have been on hold.”The aim of the publishing initiative would be to raise funds to support the school. ‘Now that the school is placed I am interested in the sustainability from the project. Asking people for the money is so I decided to change my strategy and request for the aid of the international community of ELT Syrianrefugeescrowdsourced activity book English language teaching Julie Pratten. I attracted authors and teachers to ‘donate’ one activity each. The first 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 has become overwhelming. Book 1 and 2 are fully subscribed and we use a waiting report on authors prepared to step up if a person can’t submit. We've over 160 authors signed up who are happy to give rise to future projects. The initial book is going to be published at get rid of April and it will be launched on the Annual IATEFL conference to be held from 13 to 16 April in the ICC in Birmingham.