Gauging the impact of our Teacher Exchange Program
The following was written by Mercy Southam, Invisible Children’s Uganda Programs Coordinator. While she primarily works out of our San Diego Headquarters, she is currently working in our Gulu, Uganda office while doing research and gathering information for our Teacher Exchange Program. Since 2007, Invisible Children has hosted the Teacher Exchange Program (TEX) – a cross-cultural […]
Reblog // Post Civil Conflict: Rebuilding Education in Northern Uganda
Invisible Children’s Teacher Exchange Program (TEX) was recently featured on GoAbroad.com. The below guest post was written by Catherine Hanna, the Program Facilitator of TEX, and discusses how TEX began as a professional development opportunity both for Ugandan and North American teachers, and is now helping to rebuild education in northern Uganda. Applications for the 2014 […]
Interviews with head students from our Ugandan partner schools
All secondary schools in Uganda have a Head Boy & Head Girl who are appointed student leaders. They help coordinate between staff and students, representing the needs of the students to teachers, and the authority of teachers to students. In most cases they are democratically elected; they write an application, and then the student body votes. […]
Another year older, another year wiser
Today Kenny Laubbacher (our beloved Director of Artist Relations) is celebrating another year of life. Which led him to reflect and share some of the things he’s learned along the way. Yes please. DREAM IT INTO EXISTENCE: Believe it’s possible and other’s will too. Surround yourself with dreamers because the more people who think the impossible […]
Saving lives from the ground up
We aim to be efficient – using what already exists rather than building from scratch is one way we save time and resources. As part of our defection and protection efforts in central Africa, Invisible Children recently implemented two major upgrades on FM stations. This past week, IC funded the installation of a 30m mast at Radio […]
Breaking down our four-part model: Media
Can a story change the world? We’re counting on it. Invisible Children was founded on a film. The Rough Cut made its debut in 2004 after our co-founders Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole traveled to Africa in search of a story. What started out as a filmmaking adventure transformed into much more when the […]
33 ways to stay creative
Ruts. We’ve all been in them. Whether they be personal, professional, or — my most common — creative ruts, it’s only human to find ourselves a bit lost sometimes. And the below list may help pull you out of it. Upon first glance I thought the list to be cliché, but then some of the items […]
Breaking down our four-part model: Mobilization
Invisible Children doesn’t stop at documenting atrocities or activating youth or protecting civilians or rehabilitating post-conflict communities. We do it all. And we do it through a four-part model that focuses exclusively on the LRA conflict, addressing it in its entirety: immediate needs and long-term effects. One of the four parts of the comprehensive model is Mobilization. For the past […]
It’s all in the delivery (pun intended)
Encouraging and facilitating the peaceful surrender of LRA combatants is one of the most effective ways to reduce threats to communities in central Africa and weaken the LRA’s ability to effectively operate. That is why defection fliers are an essential part of our Protection Programs. Invisible Children works with partner organizations and local leaders to send […]
LRA Crisis Tracker Quarterly Security Brief
It’s been a quarter of a year since the last time an LRA security report was released. We know, time flies. Co-produced by The Resolve LRA Crisis Initiative and Invisible Children, the January – March 2013 Quarterly Security Brief analyzes patterns in LRA activity in the first three months of this year. The data is derived […]