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[The Teacher Exchange is a program that allows Ugandan and international educators to form teaching partnerships while exposing their students to a world outside their borders. International educators team-teach in northern Uganda each summer for six weeks, and, in a reciprocal exchange, Ugandan educators visit the schools of the international educators each winter. Learn more […]

Uganda celebrated 50 years of independence on Tuesday. There is much to celebrate, from heroes like Stephen Kiprotich who took the gold in the Olympics in August, to being ranked the “top travel destination for 2012” by Lonely Planet, to major successes in economic development. According to the World Bank, “Uganda has surpassed the 2015 […]

We hold the local leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic (CAR), South Sudan, and Uganda in the highest regard. Their support of our yearlong KONY 2012 campaign has humbled us and proven that collaborative teamwork and mutual respect can literally change the course of history. Abbe Benoit Kinalegu – Director […]

Richard, an Invisible Children Uganda site supervisor, stands on the second floor of his favorite project to date: the Gulu SS multipurpose hall. Schools for Schools (S4S) partners with 11 schools in northern Uganda to improve the quality of education through ‘hardware’ (construction) projects and ‘software’ (education) projects, like teacher trainings and a program to […]

This week the Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) and the Schools for Schools (S4S) teams joined forces to hold career guidance seminars at four partner schools. While in the past these sessions focused on LSP students, this time they were offered to all students in the targeted grade levels at the schools. This way, not only […]

Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) students at Layibi SS met this week to elect student leaders. Three of them shared their thoughts on what qualities they believe make a good leader. Name: Walter Career goal: Agricultural officer What does it take to be a good leader? “According to me, a good leader should be able to […]

I remember opening my first savings account. I put in – I don’t know – $30? And then sat back waiting for the fraction of a percent of interest to accrue. I wasn’t really earning that much at the lemonade stand in my front yard, or spending that much (only on my toy horse collection), […]

Years of peace in northern Uganda have brought hope and opportunities for improved livelihood to the communities there. Wednesday, World Vision in partnership with Gulu District and the Acholi Peace Initiative held an event for International Peace Day. Invisible Children Uganda (ICU) was invited to have a booth at the event to display our Mend […]

Christened ‘Dream Factory 2’, the Uganda film team office may resemble a cool, dark cave with its blacked-out windows for easier editing and the AC always on to keep the computers from overheating. But the dream team behind the videos is anything but cold and lifeless. Jay Salbert of Fairfax, Virginia and Tony Bazilo of […]

Returning from school holidays, secondary students from Invisible Children’s Legacy Scholarship Program, together with their parents, were called to a gathering called “Family Involvement as an Opportunity for Holistic Development of a Child.” Parents were given a platform to share words of encouragement with their children as they head back to school. The parents not […]