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A visiting lecturer on the University of Brighton has launched a publishing initiative to boost funds for educating Syrian children residing in camps in Iraqi Kurdistan. In October 2015 Julie Pratten told us that she received a Facebook message requesting the aid of a logistics officer in the Domiz camp near Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She then launched a crowdfunding initiative to improve money to put together a college within the camp.

Ms Pratten said she was told the volunteers who are employed in the camp ground were so busy working with health issues that no-one 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 even have a room where they may play.”She continued to say that they are given permission to make a “mobile unit, packed with old boxes” within the camp in a classroom, which Kaniwar, and a few other volunteers from the camp cleared out and stuffed with donated craft supplies and furniture borrowed from a local school outside the camp. The Heart School operates by a local English teacher, who's also a refugee. So far, the work has raised around ?3,000.Once we started “The kids were queuing up outside to go into the classroom,” Ms Pratten continued. “We can teach about 100 kids. These kids have already been via a lot. Some of them have forfeit their parents on the war. Others have mislaid their friends towards the sea. At this time they just need to play and sing and have a little fun. For Four years they’ve experienced that camp and their lives have been getting hold.”The aim of the publishing initiative would be to raise funds to aid the varsity. ‘Now the school is placed I'm concerned with the sustainability in the project. Asking people for the money is difficult therefore i 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 attracted authors and teachers to ‘donate’ one activity each. The very first publication, A-Z of Hope is often 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 two are fully subscribed so we have a waiting listing of authors willing to step in if someone can’t submit. We've got over 160 authors enrolled that are willing to bring about future projects. The first book will probably be published at no more April and will also be launched with the Annual IATEFL conference to get held from 13 to 16 April at the ICC in Birmingham.