First Day of Training Camp for Darfur United Women’s Team
The first day of training camp with the Darfur United Women’s Team felt peacefully familiar. We arrived early in the morning to see the...
top of page
NEWS & EVENTS
Search
Refugees: United and Joyful
We were all tired. Amy and I traveled for four days to get to refugee camp Djabal from Los Angeles. Some of the men and women that...
Soccer as a Conflict Resolution Tool
The term conflict resolution typically conjures up images of United Nations peacekeeping efforts, diplomacy, and mediation. Conflict...
Refugees should lead
Trusting refugees to lead, experiment, and problem solve is not a radical idea. It's common sense.
Introducing the First Burundian Coaches of the Refugees United Soccer Academy
Meet our new youth soccer coaches in Nduta Refugee Camp in Tanzania.
The Joy and Magic of Soccer, Football!
The game of football is powerful in and of itself. It can be transformational.
Announcing iACT’s Newest Team Members!
I’d like to introduce the newest coaches of the Refugees United Soccer Academy! These four women and men hail from Darfuri camp Iridimi,...
Solidarity on the Field
When I woke up about an hour before my alarm went off today, I can’t say I was particularly surprised. It happens every time I am more...
Empathy Can End Mass Atrocities, Part II: Creating Change through the Global Sports Community
Part of a three-part blog series by iACT Chief Operating Officer Katie-Jay Scott on the power of empathy to address trauma and empower...
They play for Darfur.
To say the team has improved on the field is maybe one of the greater underestimations I may have made in my almost-40 years on this...
It’s About Pride.
It cannot be a more stark difference. The football that Darfur United has played in the last six days at training camp in Östersund,...
The Darfur United “Hospital”
Quotation marks can signal that someone is speaking, that something is a title, or that a word or phrase is being used in a special way....
The First Women To Ever Play Soccer
What does if feel like to be the first women to ever play soccer in your community? It’s the question I’ve been eager to ask our group of...
Meet the Coaches of RUSA Camp Farchana
Not a sandstorm, fasting for the month of Ramadan, nor the heat could deter our exceptional group of male and female candidates from...
Fun and Impactful
During a soccer dribbling exercise, I ask the men and women candidates to give each other high-fives, to be encouraging and to cheer for...
The Joy of Soccer
The first time I played soccer in a refugee camp was back in 2005, during what was going to be my only trip to the Chad-Sudan border. It...
Training Refugee Teachers and Visiting Friends
Today was our second visit to refugee camp Djabal in eastern Chad, and the first day of Little Ripples Teacher Training II for camp...
Meet Hassan Saleh—our newest coach.
Meet Hassan Saleh—our newest Refugee United Soccer Academy (RUSA) coach. He is replacing the wonderful Soulimnan. Hassan has been...
An Extra Line of Support
“We have become famous in our community,” Souliman said, speaking of himself and the other coaches of the Refugees United Soccer Academy...
bottom of page