Blog Updates and inspiration

On Thursday, September 26th, Invisible Children dropped 90,000 “come home” fliers over a region in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). With this flier drop we surpassed one million fliers designed, printed, and dropped since the program began. That’s one million opportunities for members of the LRA to escape, and it’s working. In 2012 alone, […]

There have been numerous articles reporting a mass defection from within Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, and rumors are swirling. Here is what we do know. A small group of potential defectors from an unidentified armed force reportedly made contact with Central African officials in Haute-Kotto, CAR, and indicated that they were a part of a […]

Updated on Thursday, September 26, 2013: There have been numerous articles reporting a mass defection from within Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, and rumors are swirling. Here is what we do know. A small group of potential defectors from an unidentified armed force reportedly made contact with Central African officials in Haute-Kotto, CAR, and indicated that […]

While global dialogue surrounding human rights abuses and humanitarian disasters is critical, local reporting from areas affected by these atrocities is equally important. It not only allows for the voices and perspectives of those most affected by conflict to be heard, but it increases regional awareness of – and participation in – conflict resolution and […]

Often, when we think about Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) we think of those still held captive, those killed, and the nearly 440,000 who are currently displaced. Yet there’s another number that may surprise you. Camilla Matteucci, the protection coordinator at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) estimates that at […]

The following was written by Sébastien Porter, a Project Officer at Invisible Children Central African Republic. The Invisible Children office in Central African Republic, or ICCAR, is back in business. With a transitional CAR government in place, the southeast of the country is much more stable than it was a few months ago, giving our […]

The following was written by Mercy Southam, Invisible Children’s Uganda Programs Coordinator. While she primarily works out of our San Diego Headquarters, she is currently working in our Gulu, Uganda office while doing research and gathering information for our Teacher Exchange Program. Since 2007, Invisible Children has hosted the Teacher Exchange Program (TEX)  – a cross-cultural […]

Over the course of three days, 34 community leaders from northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and southeast Central African Republic (CAR) converged in Gulu town of northern Uganda to attend a cross-border community sensitization conference intended to familiarize the group with the origin of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and to draw strategies to […]

We aim to be efficient – using what already exists rather than building from scratch is one way we save time and resources. As part of our defection and protection efforts in central Africa, Invisible Children recently implemented two major upgrades on FM stations. This past week, IC funded the installation of a 30m mast at Radio […]

We’re entering the final week of our Four-Part Model video series, ending with our Media programs. I sat down with our lead film editor to ask her four questions (we love themes) to get a better sense of her role in the media that Invisible Children produces. Kathryn Lang started out as a Roadie back […]