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National exams are in progress at Schools for Schools partner Gulu Secondary School. Students are taking their exams inside the new multipurpose hall, leaving their backpacks piled outside.

“My stories always affect the community,” Eric Otim explains. “My education helps me come up with good angles that will make people think about the issues.” Eric is a university graduate of the Legacy Scholarship Program, and he works as a radio presenter talking about public affairs and community issues on a community radio station. […]

During the Lord’s Resistance Army conflict, Ajok Betty’s entire family was displaced from their ancestral land, and she never finished her primary education. At the time she joined Mend, our social enterprise, Betty was struggling to pay school fees and feed her family, and her health was suffering. By joining Mend, Betty was able to […]

Ajok Betty, a seamstress at Mend, started her own side business doing tailoring and hair plaiting on the weekends at a local market in Gulu. Mend improves the quality of life for Ugandan mothers who were directly affected by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The women are empowered through psychosocial and financial trainings and […]

This International Day of Peace, two members of the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative (ARLPI) shared their insights on peace in northern Uganda. Acknowledging the tragedy of the Lord’s Resistance Army conflict, they are hopeful that reconciliation and an eventual end to the violence will bring healing to the communities that have suffered and are […]

Since 2006, the Schools for Schools (S4S) program of Invisible Children Uganda has constructed or refurbished 236 buildings at 11 partner schools in northern Uganda. These projects were funded by the creative and tireless fund raising of students at hundreds of international schools. Today, we take a look at what those efforts meant to Anaka […]

Thomas, a student in the Legacy Scholarship Program, is heading back to school on Monday! “I want to be a doctor in future,” said Thomas. “I should put much effort into some subjects like biology, chemistry and physics.” It’s a good thing physics is his favorite subject!

Last week the Livelihood team was busy preparing community facilitators to teach basic reading and numeracy skills to the 161 groups in Invisible Children Uganda’s Village Savings and Loan Associations program. Community facilitators are responsible for training the groups in savings, leading adult literacy classes and advising groups on starting up income generating activities. A […]

Walk into Mend and you’ll find yourself surrounded by activity. Sewing, snipping and measuring as well as laughter and warm conversation. “For me, my favorite thing to talk about is my children. I have only two children, and I pray for them to have a good future.” Stella’s dream is for her son to become […]

In 2006, Invisible Children Uganda released Emmy: the story of an orphan, a film about a young boy who loses both his parents to HIV/AIDS. Not HIV positive himself, Emmy bravely faces a future without parents but surrounded by loving aunts and uncles who agree to care for him and his brother. Last week we […]