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Tools of Empathy at the World Innovation Summit on Education
Last week, Gabriel and I headed to Doha, Qatar, for the World Innovation Summit on Education, otherwise known simply as WISE (check out...


Refugee Education Recommendation: Adopt user-centered design and empowering approaches
Recently, our early childhood education program, Little Ripples, was selected by Promising Practices in Refugee Education as one of...


Promising Practices in Refugee Education
Our team has just returned from a long week in New York City where world leaders came together for the United Nations General Assembly....


Opportunity despite challenges
“After there’s been an event of violence, we notice that the children create guns out of sticks and pretend to shoot their peers.”...


Education in an Emergency
Today was our first day in Bangui in the Central African Republic, and much of the day consisted of learning more about the context of...


Empathy Can End Mass Atrocities, Part I: How early childhood education creates a generation of empat
Part of a three-part blog series by iACT Chief Operating Officer Katie-Jay Scott on the power of empathy to address trauma and empower...


A Morning at a Little Ripples Pond
Welcome to Little Ripples! We are at one of the camp Djabal Ponds (Little Ripples in-home preschool centers) today. Let’s take a peek at...


Our Unintended Impact
The model and approach of our early childhood education program, Little Ripples, is based on partnering with and empowering refugees to...


#WeAreDarfur: A New Pond for Little Ripples
Little Ripples have started to spread through another Darfuri refugee camp. Today, we celebrated the opening of a new Little Ripples Pond...


Clean water and soap
Water, sanitation and hygiene—referred to as WASH by the humanitarian sector. Due to their interdependent nature, these three core issues...


The curriculum has opened our minds
Leadership is more than status or title. Leadership is the way someone behaves, treats others, and the decisions he or she makes. This...


#WeAreDarfur: Peace, Helping, and Sharing
What can I teach them about peace, helping, and sharing? As I’m sitting in a training with twenty-nine Darfuri refugee women, I am hit...


#WeAreDarfur: Fatima
If you asked me to describe the spirit of Darfur, I would tell you that all you need to do is look at Fatima. She’s a veteran Little...


Hasha and Khajia
With no cover from the sun, beads of sweat immediately start to build on my forehead and chest. I am sitting cross-legged on a woven mat,...


Check Out Our Beautiful New Head Scarf Design!
We’re excited to announce the winner of our 2017 Little Ripples Headscarf design contest! The beautiful design submitted by Anne...


A story about some dogs, by Adam, as retold by Felicia
Once there was a dog. This dog found, on its own, some food. This was the dog’s way of being helpful—by being the one to go searching for...


Expanding to camp Djabal, eastern Chad
iACT is proud to announce the expansion of Little Ripples , our early childhood education program, to refugee camp Djabal in eastern...


Join our Little Ripples team as we grow!
As you might have seen, we have big goals for 2017 . And if we are going to succeed, we will need some help. Are you or do you know...
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