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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.

School for Schools just announced the winner for their annual essay writing competition. Students were tasked to write about a given topic in 500-1000 words. The scripts were thereafter graded following the Uganda National Examination Board standards to help students become better writers. Fred, a Legacy Scholarship recipient, was the overall winner in the essay […]

For Gulu Secondary School and Lacor Secondary School, winning the annual inter-school volleyball tournament in March this year was not the end. In fact, it was more like the beginning of their journey to victory. These two Gulu District victor teams had to defend their titles by facing Pader’s winning teams: the girls from Pajule […]

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.

“I am happy to be back home and discover that the stories told to captives to discourage them from escaping were all lies.” Alex was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in 2002 when he was just eleven years old. “Life in the bush was unbearable,” he said. “I was forced to do unspeakable things […]

This week we’re continuing our four-part model video series and premiering our Protection Programs. Accompanying that is our four question blog series which highlights a specific staffer who works on that specific program. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Sean Poole, Protection Program Extraordinaire. Sean is the Counter-LRA Programs Manager in our International Programs Department. He divides his time […]

Many members of Invisible Children Uganda’s Village Savings and Loan Associations take on Income Generating Activities (IGA) to earn extra income. The groups meet every week to save money together. They pool their earnings and out of that are able to take out loans to start up IGAs like rearing poultry, keeping goats and cows, […]

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

This week we’re kicking off our four-part model video series. First up: Recovery. This week we’re also kicking off our four question blog series that spotlights one person who works on that specific model. First up: Malorie Tull. Malorie is our Uganda Program Manager and helps to oversee our Recovery programs throughout northern Uganda. After […]

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 […]