Blog Updates and inspiration

We’re about to get one Roadie team bigger. Introducing Invisible Children’s newest MOVE:DC Blitz Tour Roadie Team. Or as we refer to them around the office – The Avengers. With currently 20 Roadie teams making their way around North America, Canada, and Mexico screening MOVE, we have added this 21st team to reach out exclusively […]

Opiyo Samuel teaches chemistry, mathematics and computer studies at Anaka Secondary School. Teaching since 2005, he enjoys the respect he has earned from the community, and the difference he can make in the lives of students. In the lab, Samuel patiently talks his students through an experiment, showing them how to use all the equipment […]

It started innocently enough. A handful of us at Invisible Children that enjoy football thought it would be fun to start a Fantasy Football league. Yup, a fake league where we make up team names and draft NFL players and scream at the TV each weekend and get all competitive with each other during the […]

When you’re a well-known writer, publishing critical articles about a brutal regime that runs your county is dangerous. For Syrian writer and journalist Samar Yazbeck, denying her own safety was the only thing she felt she could do. When things got bad in Syria, Samar started to interview rebels and innocents caught in Bashar al-Assad regime’s atrocities. She wrote about […]

As our Middle America Roadie team makes their way across North America to screen MOVE, they made a stop in Marion, Iowa at Excelsior Middle School. The Latin meaning of Excelsior is “ever upward” and it couldn’t apply more to the outlook of the amazing students there. After initially seeing KONY 2012 back in March, […]

As one of Invisible Children’s Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) students in secondary school, Mercy Aloyo is appreciative of the supporters of IC for being able to finish her education. She did so well, that she has now been awarded a university scholarship through LSP for development studies at Gulu University. “On joining the university I […]

International Justice Mission (IJM) is a non-profit human rights organization that brings rescue to victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. They seek to make public justice systems work for victims of abuse and oppression who urgently need the protection of the law. With already 15 field offices operating in countries […]

Learning to ride a bike is a classic experience of childhood. Wobbling down the sidewalk without training wheels, learning to balance. Finally, you are allowed to ride your bike to a friend’s house, or up to the gas station to buy candy and you fly along the street, the wind in your hair, unstoppable. It’s […]

Ayella Florence Oroma is the kind of teacher students remember their entire lives. Teaching for over 20 years, she is seeing a shift in teaching from being teacher-focused to being student-focused. As an English and literature teacher, she prefers to make her classes as interactive as possible, helping students learn how to express themselves better. […]

There’s several definitions of photography. My favorite one? Photography is the art of creating stories on your view of the world. The below pictures are little slices of life and they had me transfixed. Enjoy. (Photo credits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)