by Bridget Grant | Mar 10, 2016
The four Darfur United Soccer Academy (DUSA) coaches for camp Kounoungou have been selected! The Kounoungou academy marks the fifth DUSA to open in refugee camps along the Chad-Sudan border. The program is now 20 coaches strong and provides up to 10,000 displaced boys...
by Bridget Grant | Mar 7, 2016
A beautiful, celebratory day! The newest Darfur United Soccer Academy (DUSA) coaches for refugee camp Mile have been selected and they are a strong team. Athletic, focused, hilarious, and collectively wise; it was obvious by the end of our day that these four...
by Bridget Grant | Mar 4, 2016
We are just days away from the launch of the fourth Darfur United Soccer Academy (DUSA) along the Chad-Sudan border. This week we’re in refugee camp Mile where the conditions are harsh and the sun is scorching. We started DUSA coach tryouts with around 35 eager men...
by Bridget Grant | Feb 26, 2016
“Football —to me— is everything. Football is support. Football is health. It means relationships and it means peace.” This morning I listened to these words pour out of Darfur United coach Souliman with such conviction that I had to take pause. This wasn’t the first...
by Bridget Grant | Nov 27, 2015
Our final day in Goz Amer was jam-packed with activities and full of emotion. It was far and away my favorite day of the whole trip. In the morning, we held our final training session for prospective coaches and the group was buzzing with nervous, excited energy....
