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We are proud to announce that the winner of our first Uganda trip giveaway is the one and only Meredith Hoffman. As the president of Ursuline Academy’s Invisible Children club, Meredith absolutely blew it out of the water by raising $7,276 in the past two weeks for our #zeroLRA campaign. Not only is Meredith a […]

Leaders Call for Improved Efforts to End LRA Atrocities Unprecedented meeting leads to joint civil society statement BRUSSELS, October 8 — Leaders of civil society organizations from each country affected by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) as well as Europe and the United States met in Brussels this week and issued a joint statement calling […]

Abductions by Joseph Kony’s rebel army contribute to hundreds of missing children in central Africa each year. This is a story of one still missing. Akello Rosemary’s first born was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in September of 2002. He was only 12 years old and studying at Layibi Central. Rosemary was living with […]

Abductions by Joseph Kony’s rebel army have contributed to thousands of missing children throughout East and central Africa. This is a story of one still missing. Ojara Alex lost his 19-year-old son to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in 2001. Olum Thomas was at their farm on that fateful day. “My son was a calm, […]

There have been numerous articles reporting a mass defection from within Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, and rumors are swirling. Here is what we do know. A small group of potential defectors from an unidentified armed force reportedly made contact with Central African officials in Haute-Kotto, CAR, and indicated that they were a part of a […]

Celebrate everything. Every escape. Every name. Every life. Last November, five people successfully escaped from the Lord’s Resistance Army. Two were young men from Uganda who had likely been just children when first abducted. The other three were girls who had been abducted about three years ago. Two girls were kidnapped in Central African Republic, […]

Abductions by Joseph Kony’s rebel army have contributed to thousands of missing children throughout East and central Africa. This is a story of one still missing. Okera Richard’s older brother, Ocitti Geoffrey, was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in 1991. Geoffrey was 17 years old then. “He had left home with one of our […]

Updated on Thursday, September 26, 2013: There have been numerous articles reporting a mass defection from within Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, and rumors are swirling. Here is what we do know. A small group of potential defectors from an unidentified armed force reportedly made contact with Central African officials in Haute-Kotto, CAR, and indicated that […]

In the past we’ve been blown away by how Invisible Children supporters in Europe have rallied for peace in central Africa — from the thousands who joined the Rescue event in 2009 to the millions who pledged to help end LRA violence during KONY 2012. Now, we have an invitation to take action that is exclusively […]

June 21, 1998 LRA rebels raided Lamwolode, Uganda, and brutally kidnapped a ten-year-old boy named Opondo. He was stolen from his family, forced to kill innocent civilians, and brainwashed into believing that escape was impossible. March 2013 15 years later, while listening to an Invisible Children sponsored program on UBC Shortwave radio, Opondo overheard former […]