by Sara-Christine | Mar 6, 2014
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...
by Sara-Christine | Feb 20, 2014
I had the pleasure of spending the day with Leila and Habiba, our two women Darfur United Soccer Academy coaches. They took me to their homes, introduced me to their families, and we just hung out and talked while eating dried dates. Well, mostly I asked a lot of...
by Katie-Jay | Jan 27, 2014
Darfur United is just one of i-ACT’s several projects and campaigns. This year we trained four refugee coaches who helped launch the first Darfur United Soccer Academy. This was a huge milestone for i-ACT that we could not have reached without your support....
by Rachael Rapinoe | Nov 3, 2013
After three hard days of training, we were finally able to narrow our selection to four fantastic coaches. Two of them we knew from the beginning were strong leaders and possessed all the right characteristics for the job, however the last two shined more so on the...
