by Katie-Jay | Dec 29, 2014
Editor’s Note: This blog was originally posted on iactivism.org. By i-ACT’s KTJ (Dir. of Operations and Community Involvement): I can’t believe 2014 is almost over. What a year! With your support, our impact has been greater than it has ever been. And I...
by Katie-Jay | Jun 10, 2014
Check out the recent media coverage on Darfur United’s journey to the 2014 ConIFA World Football Cup in Ostersund, Sweden: Recent Press Darfur United Pure I Profughi Hanno Un Team La Gazzetta dello Sport, December 23, 2014 From Genocide to the World Cup: The...
by Alex Nuttall-Smith | Jun 7, 2014
The members of Darfur United share the hardships of any international athlete: long flights to a foreign country followed by new foods and unfamiliar playing fields. But unlike star athletes from professional leagues, they arrive malnourished, dehydrated and...
by Margo Baker | Jun 6, 2014
I’ve been trying for a week now to put into words exactly what it has been like to be on this journey with the Darfur United men’s soccer team, and the only word I can come up with to describe it is amazing.These men are fighters and have a never give up...
by Mark Hodson | Jun 6, 2014
I suspect that the player’s spend a lot of time in the refugee camps “imagining…..” Imagining what it’s like “out there” in the World as we know it. The camps are a dark place at night, with limited electricity…there’s not much to do but imagine….I wonder where their...