Barefoot mountain moving
Get ready to be blown away. And feel empowered, inspired, and slightly lazy. This weekend, twenty-year-old Cody Marsh from Shepherdstown, West Virginia will start a solo 20-day, 211-mile hike on the John Muir Trail…barefoot. Cody works at Two Rivers Treads, which promotes efficient and natural running and walking form, and plans to incorporate his passion […]
Teacher Exchange: Planting seeds
Meagan Roberge normally teaches at Argyle Secondary school in North Vancouver, Canada, but this summer she is teaching under Invisible Children’s Teacher Exchange (TEX) Program at Sacred Heart school in Gulu, Uganda. She had the chance to share moments of creativity as she taught students a process where water bottles are recycled for planting. The […]
Evolution of crisis mapping
The field of crisis mapping is a relatively new field, but there’s no denying that it’s growing and having a significant impact on the world. The advantages of crisis mapping are extensive: they offer a way for information to be published directly and instantly from the target region (called crowd-sourcing), they allow for massive amounts […]
Banksy takes to the Olympics
A few days before the opening ceremony of the Olympics in London, British street artist Banksy returned to work and surprised the streets with two new pieces dedicated to the worldly event. So themed, that Banksy. Banksy has been a source of influence over here at the Invisible Children office. Tyler, our Lead Designer and […]
LRA Crisis Tracker: mid-year analysis
The LRA Crisis Tracker, a joint project of Invisible Children and Resolve, just released its Mid-Year Security Brief (PDF). Below we highlight a couple of trends and conclusions that we can see in LRA activity. Resolve’s blog has a full summary of the conclusions. LRA abductions are increasing, but trends indicate they’re mostly abducting people […]
Livelihood: Exchanging Ideas
The Invisible Children (IC) Livelihood team has started up 45 Village Saving and Loan Association (VSLA) groups recently in Bobi and Lakwana. In VSLA, community members are able to pool their money and take out small loans to start up businesses. After several months of operating the new business, members pay back the loan with […]
Hillary Clinton to visit Uganda
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Africa this week and plans to make a stop in Uganda to meet with President Yoweri Museveni. In addition to pressing issues like the breakdown of democracy in Uganda and the turmoil in Somalia, Secretary Clinton also plans to discuss the LRA with the Ugandan President. This […]
“Beat of 2012” Documentary
For an hour today I successfully unglued my eyes from multiple screens of live London Olympics streams to watch a documentary from Coca-Cola about the making of their Olympics song “Anywhere In The World” by producer/guitarist/DJ-wonderchild Mark Ronson and hip-hop/soul/pop/grime amalgam Katy B. Coca-Cola is no stranger to capitalizing on a good worldwide sport competition […]