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Students at Atanga Secondary School take a break from exam preparation in a classroom furnished by Invisible Children’s Schools for Schools program. Atanga was displaced during the Lord’s Resistance Army conflict, and the support of Invisible Children helped it to return to its campus. We are empowering Ugandan students to receive education through our Legacy Scholarship […]

Four members of the Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) are currently attending Pabo Secondary School (Pabo SS), and each student fits into one or more vulnerability categories. These categories were developed by Invisible Children in 2005 in order to identify students in northern Uganda who are facing the greatest needs. In many cases, these vulnerabilities – where the student […]

Casual Fridays at Invisible Children’s main office in Gulu, Uganda are characterized by staff wearing a bright array of Invisible Children T-shirts. One commonly seen in our education office reads “Sports as a Tool for Mentoring” on the back. In addition to supporting the intellectual development of young people in northern Uganda through our Legacy […]

On June 16, 1976, thousands of schoolchildren peacefully took to the streets of Soweto, in Johannesburg, South Africa. This protest, later known as the Soweto Uprising, has been memorialized as the Day of the African Child ever since 1991. It serves a reminder of the constant need for improved education services for children across the African continent. […]

Students at Pabo Secondary School were participating in track and field activities on Thursday. These athletic event are a way of helping students embrace their potential outside of the classroom, learn lessons in teamwork and foster a sense of healthy and productive competition. This photo Friday, we are sharing the school’s motto – “Enter to […]

Meet Ojok Jennifer. Jennifer is a student at Gulu High School and a member of the Legacy Scholarship Program. She has hopes to be a doctor one day, empowered to pursue her dreams through the support of her teachers at GHS and her mentor from Invisible Children.  We caught up with her to ask about the […]

We are all about impact at Invisible Children. We began by producing media that matters and learned quickly that our advocacy efforts could do so much more for the people of northern Uganda beyond just sharing their stories. We started asking students throughout the world to offer their support for the region’s students. You answered our call […]

For the past week I have been out in Uganda working with our Africa leadership team on program strategy, budgets, and operations. It is in these planning meetings where organizational development occurs and where new plans are created. It was in one of these sessions four years ago that our teams agreed to expand our […]

Schools for Schools began in 2006 as a response to the poor condition of many schools following the Lord’s Resistance Army conflict. Invisible Children linked schools around the world together with our 11 partner schools in northern Uganda. Rather than thinking of the conflict as something that was too far away or difficult to understand, […]

Ayer John Bosco, the Deputy Head Teacher at Sir Samuel Baker Secondary School, stands outside his home with his children. The house was built as part of the Schools for Schools project. Not only do the houses provide more comfort for teachers and their families, they have also helped with time management for teachers and […]