Blog Updates and inspiration

A typical sight from the road outside of Invisible Children Uganda’s main office in Gulu.

You may remember meeting Jacob Okello, a mentor from Invisible Children Uganda’s field office in Pader district, through our blog a few months back. At the end of last year, Jacob transitioned into his new role as Invisible Children’s Regional Family Tracing Assistant. Now based out of Gulu, Jacob works directly with formerly abducted persons who recently […]

Quick recap: Our current #zeroLRA campaign is raising money to fund programs that encourage kidnapped men, women, and children to escape Joseph Kony’s rebel army and return home. Every time someone safely surrenders, we celebrate. One such person is Opondo who escaped the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) after 15 years in captivity. So the staff in our […]

Greetings from our office in Gulu, Uganda. It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood indeed.

Let’s talk about being in the right place at the right time. Back in July, even before my arrival in Uganda, I almost booked a trip to Kenya for early November. I was thrilled for the opportunity to travel with friends who are also working in east Africa, but something did not feel quite right. […]

Meet Justin. He’s an IC intern, a San Diego native, and just earned one of the coolest degrees ever from UCSD. Cognitive Science, with a specialization in Human/Computer Interactions. Already, he’s putting his degree to good use as Invisible Children’s UX/UI Intern. Don’t know what that is? Neither did I. That’s why I sat down […]

The following post is reblogged from So, How Was Your Day?, a lifestyle blog that interviews influential and inspiring people, asking them to give an overview of their daily routine. Kenny is Invisible Children’s Director of Artist Relations. Morning ➛ Ya…I’m one of those – I set my alarm for 7am (it’s set to this WONDERFUL song […]

Meet Tyler. After graduating from Arizona State University, working at a nonprofit in Ireland, and spending three years with the American Cancer Society, Tyler was an ideal addition to the Development Team as our Corporate Engagement Intern. As a nonprofit-loving people-person, Tyler gets the opportunity to rub elbows (over the phone, at least) with big […]

Meet Melanie. I had the opportunity to sit down and talk to this wonder woman, and would like to share some of the highlights from our conversation. So, Melanie, what does being Invisible Children’s operations manager in Dungu involve? What are your day-to-day responsibilities? I supervise the whole of the finance, HR, and administration for […]

Walk into the Mend workshop in Gulu, Uganda and the energy in the room is immediately palpable. Upbeat music plays in the background as groups of seamstresses gather around their workspaces. Mend is a social enterprise that, through the creation of handbags, empowers women affected by the LRA conflict. Each day, 22 seamstresses are joined in […]