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 | Sep 20, 2013
In the past couple of decades, the importance of community-based participatory programs have been highlighted through scores of research articles and publications and is now widely accepted as a fundamental principle of good community development practice. The main...
by Katie-Jay | Apr 30, 2013
On my first trip to the Darfuri refugee camps of eastern Chad, Gabriel and I played four against 15 with sandals perched in the sand for goal posts. Since the other team didn’t assume I could really play, they left me unmarked. My first goal resulted in lots of...
by Gabriel | Mar 30, 2012
The look on their faces was like they had just gotten off of a roller coaster, wide-eyed and wider smiles. Immediately after getting out of the car, they came over and hugged us, somehow knowing that we, this odd looking group of westerners, had to be the ones coming...
