NEWS AND UPDATES
ONE STRONG KICK Indeed!
Last Saturday, April 19, over 150 community members and Darfur United supporters gathered at John and Cynthia Bartlett’s house in Palos Verdes Estates, CA for our third annual ONE STRONG KICK event to support the Darfur United team and Soccer Academy. The evening was...
i-ACT 19 Begins!
The team headed out to the refugee camps for i-ACT 19 (the longest trip since i-ACT 1) and the Darfur United 2014 tryouts. Read some first impressions from team members Gabriel, Sara-Christine and first timer Margo on what's in store over the next month: En Route to...
Build the 2014 DU Squad
i-ACT 19 is upon us! Gabriel and I will be leaving for Chad this coming Monday, the 28th. Along with a professional soccer coach, we’ll be heading to camp Djabal to select the Darfur United players that will form the 2014 squad who will compete in the ConIFA World...
Darfur United: We Rise as One
Leading up to the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, Budweiser, the official beer sponsor, is asking the world to hope, believe, and celebrate football and to Rise as One. In February 2014, a team from Vice traveled with i-ACT’s Gabriel Stauring and Sara-Christine Dallain to...
ONE STRONG KICK: PALOS VERDES COUPLE HOSTS 3RD ANNUAL REFUGEE SOCCER BENEFIT
i-ACT, a Hermosa Beach-based grassroots organization, is hosting it’s third annual gala benefit event, ONE STRONG KICK, in support of Darfur United and its children’s Soccer Academy.
Darfur United’s Wish List
People are always asking us for what they can contribute to the team and children's soccer academy. Here is a list of the most common things we use! Team Tryouts and Youth Academy: Adult Numbered Scrimmage Pennies (72) Buy One - Give One 2014 ConIFA DU T-shirt Cones...
Darfuri refugee Arafa: ‘when I grow up I can teach other children football’
It was so great to get back to refugee camp Djabal in eastern Chad and conduct a 3-month follow up on the Darfur United Soccer Academy. The Academy has been up and running since the end of October 2013, when it was launched with 30 children. Since then, the coaches...
Top Ten List: Things I Learned on 18th Trip to Darfuri Refugee Camps
1. Children’s bodies and brains will not get fed by lessons on self-reliance. Not protecting the most vulnerable is not an option.
No Time or Room for Pity
Editor's Note: This blog originally appeared on iactivism.org. Adam sent me a text message, telling me that he made it back safely to home in Darfur. Before we said goodbye to each other at camp Djabal just a few days ago, Adam told me that it is our communication,...