Equity Summit
“When the ball starts rolling, refugees are no longer refugees. They are not victims or survivors. They are players.”
iACT is determined to bring the transformative and joyful power of sports to every woman and girl affected by conflict.
iACT & Gender Equity
iACT is taking intentional action to challenge existing power structures and create opportunities for women and girls to stand in their own power.
50% of all iACT soccer coaches in the RUSA program are women.
34 female coaches across 6 countries have created the opportunity for thousands of girls impacted by war and conflict to play soccer for the first time.
iACT & Sports
Sports programming for children and youth affected by war and conflict is regularly under-prioritized, and in fact is often seen as unimportant.
The Refugees United Soccer Academy (RUSA) blends skills, drills, and team-building exercises with a coaching pedagogy designed to support the social and emotional wellbeing of girls and boys ages 6 to 13.
iACT employs 68 soccer coaches across 6 countries.
More than 12,000 girls and boys play soccer in RUSA every year.
iACT’s mission is to resource and partner with people affected by war and conflict, to amplify their voices and create opportunities for them to thrive.
“[RUSA] is important and necessary in the lives of women and girls because football makes girls active and strong, allows them to get rid of shyness, and makes them more visible and acceptable to others.”
Coach Fatna
Get Involved
Building relationships and partnering deeply are core values of iACT. We prioritize working in true collaboration and mutuality with our partners, peers, and global team members to resource communities affected by conflict to thrive. Working alongside iACT offers unique opportunities to help bring the power of sports to more refugee women and girls globally.
PARTNER
Your partnership with iACT can take many forms, including financial funding, storytelling, amplifying the voices of refugees, program equipment donations, and opportunities to ideate and create new projects adapted for your unique audience and mission.
SPONSOR
Enable iACT to continue to resource communities affected by war to provide sports programming that supports the social, emotional, and physical development of children. Sponsor a Refugees United Soccer Academy for one year.
DONATE
Donate to directly support the program costs of iACT’s community-led early childhood education and sports programs reaching over 13,000 refugee children and employing 249 community members as teachers, coaches, coordinators, and directors.
Our Partners & Sponsors
iACT partners with non-governmental organizations, advocacy groups, companies, and sports organizations in many unique ways to support community-led education and sports programs and to advocate for a community-led model of humanitarian action.
