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“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. […]

Last week, Invisible Children and our partners at The Resolve traveled to Brussels for a week-long advocacy gathering with local community leaders from LRA-affected areas of Central and East Africa, and with European human rights organizations EurAc, IKV Pax Christi, and Conciliation Resources. The goal of the gathering was to urge International political leaders to […]

If a LRA member is able to escape their group, communities in the conflict affected regions of Central African Republic (CAR) , Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and South Sudan are often first point of contact during a LRA member’s defection processes. Therefore, currently underway at Invisible Children’s regional office in Kampala, is a four […]

Willy Charles Okello remembers when his friends were learning how to ride their bicycles. He also remembers that this was when the Lord’s Resistance Army abducted them. That was Independence Day in 1998. “[The LRA] knows that, on certain days, people are very peaceful. They are celebrating and do what they can to forget about […]

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 […]

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 […]

University students from the Legacy Scholarship Program recently came together for a day-long workshop day in Gulu. The workshop’s theme was “Education, a tool for personal and societal transformation.” The students spent the day hearing from ICU staff and inspirational speakers, discussing their experience at LSP scholars and learning about updates to the program. “I think it’s […]

Radios remain the only connection that many LRA combatants have to Uganda. Because of this Willy Charles Okello, ICU’s Radio Production and Liaison Officer, continues to work with communities on producing Come Home messages. The messages are shared through FM and shortwave radio stations that reach areas in DR Congo, CAR and South Sudan. The […]

Head of Office Elijah Muchiri already had his computer hooked up to the projector before the start of a recent program managers’ meeting at ICU. His desktop background? A colorful map of the world depicting time zones, continents and, interestingly, recent natural disasters. The map updates itself as events occur throughout the world and, based on […]

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 […]