NEWS & EVENTS

iACT's First Soccer Coach: Meet Ramadan Abdullah Abakar

Ramadan shares his story of living as a refugee in Chad for 20 years, meeting iACT, and what it meant to be a coach and community leader.

iACT's Soccer Program Featured in the LA Times

In which sports writer Kevin Baxter explores the power of play, and just how iACT builds relationships and co-creates programs.

iACT’S Community-led Approach to Humanitarian Action

Part One in iACT's series exploring our community-led approach.

What is a Listening Trip?

Why doesn't iACT show up to a new place ready to launch programs? Why do we go first just to listen?

How iACT Builds Sustainable Partnerships

What makes iACT’s refugee- and community-led model so special?

First, we listen.

This is my first time in Africa, my first time in Chad, and my first time in a refugee camp. As iACT’s Office Coordinator, I’m usually...

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...

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...