Refugee Soccer: Finding Belonging Through Sport

In 2010, BYU alum Adam C. Miles (BA ’92) started a non-profit organization to help reunite refugee families who were resettling in the United States from Africa. Over the years, he realized more needed to be done to help refugees find belonging in the US.

His solution? Soccer.

in 2016 Adam Miles launched Refugee Soccer, with the three-fold mission of play, equip, and compete—raising money for refugee kids to join local teams, collecting used gear to make sure the kids have the equipment they need to play, and helping them travel to competitions.

In this episode of the Y Magazine podcast, host Whitney Singley Archibald (BA ’01) talks with Miles about how soccer creates connections for refugees in a unique way.

This episode is based on the article “Goals for Refugee Girls” written by Julia K. Nebeker (’24) that appears in the summer 2024 issue of Y Magazine.

Check out another episode on alumni service: “Saving Days, Ending Period Poverty with Days for Girls.”

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