Dan, January 17 2021 First of all, happy new year to all. Hope you and your loved ones are as well as can be as we traverse the new covid-lined path before us. Secondly, what […]

Dan, December 2020 A first time for everything As of today I have been in Lebanon for two weeks, and it’s been a fortnight of firsts. First time in Lebanon; first time in Beirut; in […]

We can’t play matches but kick ups are fine. So here’s a mini series of games: Future Football against the rest of the world. All to raise funds to buy food for the families who […]

We don’t prepare our students for exams, we prepare them for life. Everything we do has the same end goal; level the playing field so our kids can compete with the rest of the world. […]

In Lebanon, one in every three is a refugee Lebanon has the highest number of refugees per capita in the world. 250,000 Palestinians have been joined by an estimated 1.5 million Syrians. The population has […]

The academy is located in Burj Barajneh, a refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. 30,000 people live in one square kilometre of land, recognised by the UN but forgotten by the rest of the world. The […]

Burj Barajneh, The office. We work in the wild, wild west of the Middle East. The day starts with a crazy taxi race through bazaars and boulevards down to south Beirut. On the city’s outskirts, […]