[video] On the Move, with Starts and Stops

[video] On the Move, with Starts and Stops

Editor’s Note: This post, written by Gabriel Stauring originally appeared on iactivism.org. i-ACT 17: On the Move, with Starts and Stops from i-ACT on Vimeo. As soon as I land in N’Djamena, I’m itching to get on a plane to the east, so we can be in a...
Ten Things

Ten Things

Ten Things I’ve Learned Somewhere Between the USA, Chad, and Iraq 1. People can rebuild from horrible suffering and maintain their humanity—and sense of humor. 2. You show you care, you earn trust, then you can push them as hard as is needed, and they respond....
Long Day Journal

Long Day Journal

Exhausting. Up at 3:30am and out at the camp by 5. The players were all already up and getting ready for the trip to N’Djamena, for sure the farthest any of them have been from home. Two players, Mohamed and Mohamed, had to leave earlier than the others because...
From Tent to Five-Star

From Tent to Five-Star

Sixteen young men, all refugees from Darfur now living in camps close to the Chad-Sudan border, will be traveling with us to Iraqi Kurdistan to compete in an international soccer tournament, the Viva World Cup. There’s nobody around to pinch me. Those sixteen...
Ismail

Ismail

My very first trip to the refugee camps in eastern Chad was in January 2008. There was one particular woman I knew I had to meet. Her name is Fatna and she lives in Camp Farchana. I had first met her through Stacey and Cany, two i-ACT team members who had previously...