Coming up: iACT for Refugees event in Portland, Oregon!
Calling all Portlandians! Come to the new Lagunitas Community Room on Sunday, October 16th to learn more about us, iACT, and our mission...
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Become a Sustainer of Action
Join a group of people changing the world in the most effective and efficient way possible: Sustainers of Action. Sustainers of Action...
Sundays, Books and Connections
As I write this, its Sunday. I’m working, but happily so. A day of rest is conducive to sitting with my computer, coffee and no...
World Peace Dreaming at the Bagel Shop
I sit in an air-conditioned bagel shop, drinking my ice-cold diet coke (already on my 3rd refill) after already eating two bagels with...
10 Things I’ve Learned – on my 16th trip to Darfuri refugee camps
(in no particular order) 1. Showing up is important. Coming back creates friendships for life. 2. There is absolutely no excuse for the...
June 8th: a Magical Day
Exactly a year ago, I was in Iraq with an all-refugee team from Darfur making its first appearance in an international competition. The...
Little Ripples Teacher Training and Assessment
The i-ACT team continues their time in refugee camp Goz Amer with the new teachers and students of Little Ripples! Here are a few...
Little Ripples Teacher Profile: Haleyma
Haleyma, now twenty-one, was twelve years old when she started first grade of primary school—a week after she arrived in refugee camp Goz...
Goz Amer Community
In preparing for the opening of the first Little Ripples early childhood education center, the i-ACT team met with community and tribe...
New Darfuri Arrivals
After 10 years of devastation in Darfur, renewed violence has led to more than 300,000 newly displaced in the region. Here are images of...
Darfuri Jacks
[divider_2] Support i-ACT i-ACT is supporting programs in the camps that are important to the refugees, like education and sports. Please...
Little Ripples Teacher Training Day #1
It was an another amazing and productive day! We finally began our teacher training! Jocelyn and I had 19 young women candidates to work...
Video: The First Little Ripples Center!
We did it! The first Little Ripples center is set to be finished this week and we got to tour the amazing campus with the whole LR team....
A Kind of a Stopwatch
There’s a classic Twilight Zone episode called “A Kind of Stopwatch” in which a man comes into possession of a stopwatch that can stop...
In the Moment in Eastern Chad
i-ACT’s Gabriel Stuaring, James Thacher and the Little Ripples team are in eastern Chad documenting the stories of Darfuri refugees and...
Little Ripples: Planning and Preparing for Teacher Training
Today was such a productive day! The team got the chance to talk with a few of the primary teachers today. Ahmed Hassan Yagoub, who...
New Faces in Old Places
i-ACT’s Gabriel Stuaring, James Thacher and the Little Ripples team are in eastern Chad documenting the stories of Darfuri refugees and...
Video: A Darfuri Celebration
i-ACT’s Gabriel Stuaring, James Thacher and the Little Ripples team are in eastern Chad documenting the stories of Darfuri refugees and...
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i-ACT’s Gabriel Stuaring, James Thacher and the Little Ripples team are in eastern Chad documenting the stories of Darfuri refugees and...
1 Victim, 2 Victims, 3…When do we stop caring?
i-ACT’s Gabriel Stuaring, James Thacher and the Little Ripples team are in eastern Chad documenting the stories of Darfuri refugees and...
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