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The head girl, Sandra, at Sacred Heart in front of the completed 18 classroom building at the heart of the campus. The second and third floors of the classroom block were built by Schools for Schools. Sandra’s favorite subject in school is chemistry, and she dreams of one day becoming a surgeon.

Cheerful paintings on a wall at the World Vision Children of War Center in Gulu – an organization Invisible Children Uganda collaborates with to reintegrate former LRA combatants into their home communities.

Young girls performing a traditional dance during the Legacy Scholarship Program volleyball tournament in Pader last weekend.

She drinks a glass of water. She fills a tub with clothes to scrub and rinses them out with water. She puts a pot of water on the stove to boil vegetables for dinner. Her six children tramp home covered in dust from school or playing with their friends, and she has set aside plastic […]

At the Daniel Comboni Vocational School, students spend time both in the classroom and getting hands-on experience in their chosen field. Kenneth, a Legacy Scholarship Program student, is in his first year of the Motor Vehicle Training course. He and his fellow students are gathered around the open hood of a battered white vehicle, talking […]

On the dashboard of an Invisible Children Uganda vehicle.

Based on a 2012 survey, more than half of the seamstresses in our Gulu-based social enterprise were operating Income Generating Activities (IGAs)–and 81.8% expressed interest in starting their own. To learn more about how, the ladies stepped away from their sewing machines last week for a field trip. Local facilitators with business skills training experience […]

Sunset over the Nile in Jinja, Uganda.

Milka’s home is in the village over an hour from the town center of Gulu. The land is green and hilly, with livestock grazing along the side of the rust red road. Milka remembers enjoying her childhood playing outside and swimming with her friends in a river near her home. Then the Lord’s Resistance Army […]

A small child is sleeping on a bed in the classroom. Fiona is about the size of a 4-year-old, but in reality she is 14. She suffers from Nodding Syndrome, a neurological disorder that has become widespread in parts of northern Uganda. The affected children experience epileptic seizures, and many are injured from falling into […]