When his work is done, Aime Baligizi brings a few soccer balls to a local field to play with young children. Some of them are refugees from the conflict in Darfur.

By nightfall, there were no confirmed deaths, and children played soccer on closed-off streets in a generally joyous atmosphere.

My nephews and I tossed a football around and worked up a sweat durng Thanksgiving lunch, and the next day during a day-after-Thanksgiving dinner with my dad I went swimming with the kids.