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For Valentine’s Day, the Mend seamstresses were given messages of appreciation from customers who bought their bags. When you purchase a bag from Mend, you can register it on the website and send a personal message to the woman who made your bag. Mend is a social enterprise geared toward improving the quality of life […]

“Reproductive health is a topic not many parents and youth in Uganda openly talk about; this has posed a major challenge in the lives of many youth in northern Uganda,” says Patience Ayecan, a specialist working with Reproductive Health Uganda. Patience, a guest speaker at the Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) students and parent/guardian gathering was […]

The finishing touches are being put on the Schools for Schools (S4S) project at Sacred Heart School in Gulu. The completed project is a three-story building with 18 classrooms. The top two floors were built by Invisible Children Uganda with the help of schools across the US who donated in the S4S campaign. The Schools […]

With this week marking the beginning of the 2013 school year in Uganda, the secondary students in Invisible Children Uganda’s Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) shared what they have been up to for the past two months while on holiday. “Over the weekends I have been weeding potatoes at Kirombe, while weekdays are strictly reserved for […]

Makerere University is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Africa. Located in Kampala, Uganda, it’s been providing students with first-class education for the past 90 years, including my beloved Ugandan teammate Komakech Lawrence, who graduated from the university in 2005 and boasted about it’s academic superiority throughout our tour this past fall. Makerere […]

At around 10AM, the sewing machines come to a stop and the ladies of Mend gather outside to take tea, share stories, and even do some hair styling. Mend improves the quality of life for women in Gulu, Uganda, who were directly affected by the LRA conflict. This social enterprise produces high-quality handbags while providing […]

“I hate it when someone says ‘I cannot do something.’ Anyone in this world can do something to make a difference.” David Ocitti sits in his friend Patrick’s home, looking through photos from his graduation last Saturday. David has relentlessly pursued his education, despite all setbacks. Held captive by the LRA for 6 months, David […]

The Ugandan teachers participating in our Teacher Exchange Program (TEX) have officially started their team-teaching. Six weeks, six teachers, six schools, six amazingly different experiences. We have been following two teachers in particular, Florence and Samuel, and have picked their brains on their experience thus far and tracked their movements in pictures. Fall in love […]

Teachers from Invisible Children Uganda partner schools were given an opportunity to acquire new computer knowledge, skills and working methods through a one week computer training at Sacred Heart School. The training, conducted this week by Schools for Schools (S4S), is designed to support teachers and build their capacity to help students. Computer applications like […]

This is all I know: I would have loved to be part of a program that helped me learn about money before I had to learn about it myself through overdraft, and bank fees, and no savings. Our Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) program in Gulu, Uganda began in 2009, and consists of groups […]